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Theodore Roosevelt

"Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books."

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"Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books."

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Amber Hurdle

"Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism."

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"Gingerbread houseswith gumdrops and peppermintand marshmallow snow."

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"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."

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"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."

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"The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic."

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"And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics."

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"Let there be a child, who should, not be taught. Let there be a child, who should, be refrained from books. Let him not hear, don't preach him, dear. Don't let him read the quotations, on internet and make them his passion. Don't tell him stories of successful, and make them his anthem.Allow him to grow unto what, he is to know."

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"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."

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"There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated."

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"When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew."

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"I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to."
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"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
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"Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
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"I feel like a Bull Moose."
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"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
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