"You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better."

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"You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

James Dobson, American Psychologist

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"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

Darnell Lamont Walker, American Writer

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"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

Stephen King, American Author

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"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Family, Children, Talk

"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself."

Trevor Huddleston, British Activist

Family, Brother, Christ, Personality, Responsibility

"Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you."

C. JoyBell C., American Author

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"There is only one mother in this world who is the best one, the one that every kid has got."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

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"You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know."

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"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."

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"There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them."

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"The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'."

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"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."

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