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"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
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"Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters."
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"Cullen is up there killing my children. He's killing everyone."
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"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."
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"One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking."
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"There is no overt rivalry among our children."
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"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
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"My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish."
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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
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"It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children."
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"Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary."
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"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
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"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."
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"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."
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"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed."
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"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
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"You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College."
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"We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance."
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"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism."
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"The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more."
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