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"We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless…We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action…No action." »Michael Jackson
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"In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)" »George Will
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"The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we talk about statistically, but the one that a mother held briefly in her arms-he leaves an empty place in a parent's heart that will never heal." »Thomas H. Kean
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"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." »Albert Einstein
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"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege." »Unknown
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"When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff." »Cicero
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"abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
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"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." »Voltaire
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"Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." »Voltaire
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"Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story." »Lincoln Steffens
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"The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power." »Mary Bertone
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"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below." »George Orwell
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"Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child." »Laurens Van der Post
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"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child." »Thomas Andrew Bailey
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"The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest." »Michael
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"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child." »Mary MacCracken
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"The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world." »A. S. Neill, Summerhill
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"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." »Sir John Lubbock
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"Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child." »Danish proverb
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"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child." »Randall Jarrell
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"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?" »Cesare Pavese
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"A child only educated at school is an uneducated child." »George Santayana
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"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." »Groucho Marx
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"The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." »John Lubbock
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"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters." »Rachel Blanchard
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"I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up." »Will Rogers
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"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions." »Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test
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"It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves." »Demosthenes
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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly." »Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
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