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"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."

"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children."

"And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?"

"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."

"Good mothers know that their relationship with each of their children is like a movable feast, constantly changing and evolving."

"He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake."

"There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era."
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"We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?"

"People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy."

"I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day."

"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply 'be good'. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."

"We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory."

"Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate."
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