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"The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so."

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

"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."

"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."

"There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me."

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

"We children learned responsibility automatically."

"I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children."
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"Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever."

"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."

"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."
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