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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." »Groucho Marx
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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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"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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"Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child." »Dennis Prager
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"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life." »John Macy
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"A child miseducated is a child lost." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult." »Fran Lebowitz
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"All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood." »Benjamin McLane Spock
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"Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed Christmas night." »Garry Gamble
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"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." »Bradley Miller
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"If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand." »J. F. Boyse
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"Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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"Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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"If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well." »Black Hawk
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"The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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