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"Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."

"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."

"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."

"I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."

"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."
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"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."

"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."

"To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke."

"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."

"The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor."

"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock."
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