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"If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world."
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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"Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they'll fly."
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"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
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"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."
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"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
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"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
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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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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
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"Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known."
Life
"If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned."
Work
"Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others."
Change
"If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character."
Power
"If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim."
Ability
"Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven."
God
"If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources."
Knowledge
"Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended."
Nature
"If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay."
God
"Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past."
History
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