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"My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities."
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"That we shall use every discovery of science in the preservation of our children's health goes without saying; but we shall do more than this - we shall give them a free start, not loading them up with our own ideas and experiences, nor advising them to live according to our lights. We were burned in the fire here and there, but - who knows? - fire may not burn our children, and if we warn them away from it they may end by never growing warm. We will not even inflict our cynicism on them as the sentimentality of our fathers was inflicted on us. The most we will do is urge a little doubt, asking that the doubt be exercised on our ideas as well as on all the mortal things in this world."
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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
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"Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence."
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"Don't box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You'll produce either rebels, or very boring people."
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"Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child."
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"Parents' transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages."
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"Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower."
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"Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt."
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"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John."
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"Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them or constantly criticizing them, you will only push them away and make them feel inadequate around other kids. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals."
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"I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals."
College
"He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned."
Nothing
"If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society."
Education
"Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration."
Work
"Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being."
Being
"It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can."
Truth
"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."
Peace
"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting."
Travel
"Does politics have to be injected into everything?"
Politics
"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."
Life
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