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"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."

"Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one."

"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."
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"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"

"And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."

"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."

"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."
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