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"A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need."
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"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."

"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."

"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."

"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."

"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."

"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image."

"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."

"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."
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"Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves."

"My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years."

"Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives."

"The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual."
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