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"Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable."
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"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
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"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."
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"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."
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"My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had."
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"Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most feared: an incorrigible masturbator, a winsome homosexual, a recklessly impregnatory libertine. On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behaviour of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience."
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"Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life."
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"Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation."
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"The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them."
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"Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable."
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"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
Science
"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
Social
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
Life
"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
Emotion
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
People
"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
Religion
"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."
Equality
"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so."
Work
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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