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"The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century."
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"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."

"When we are not sure we are alive."

"The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it."

"Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off every minute of human life. Andwhat constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after oreventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have."

"There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere."
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"The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics."

"There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together."

"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class."

"If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him."

"There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home."

"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play."

"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job."

"The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it."

"You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are."
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