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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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"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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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
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"Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"
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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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"Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children."
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"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
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"The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive."
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"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children."
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"I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring."
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"Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries."
Change
"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational."
Life
"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."
Life
"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
Love
"One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives."
Change
"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"
Cinema
"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."
Sympathy
"Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?"
Culture
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
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"The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?"
Education
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