"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

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

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

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Bob Geldof, Irish Actor

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"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me."

Susan Smith, American Criminal

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"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."

Sting, British Musician

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"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."

Marcelene Cox, American Columnist

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"The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

Clarence Darrow, American Lawyer

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"We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

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"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."

Roy L. Smith, American Clergyman

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

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"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

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"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself."

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

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"I want to be all used up when I die."

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"We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."

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"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

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