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David Friedman

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

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"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

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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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"Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children."

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"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."

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"Children reinvent your world for you."

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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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"I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted."
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"I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year."
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"I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference."
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"As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs."
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"I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me."
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"I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company."
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"I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives."
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"Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks."
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"I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent."
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"I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year."
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