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  • Franklin P. Jones Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
    A Woman of No Importance (1893)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Keeshan Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
    As quoted in Commentary: Pre-school Rankings by Susan Hoff KERA Public Newsroom (6 September 2007)
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Francis Bacon Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Socrates Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bernard Malamud Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Bobby Flay Chipotles to me are a one-of-a-kind pepper because they're smoked jalapenos, so they're fiery and they're smoky. It's good to use chipotles in salsas or soups or condiments - that works really well. To me, they always really pick up anything you put them in.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bethany McLean Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Benjamin Rush Christianity is the only true and perfect religion, and in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy. And a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • C. S. Lewis Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Billy Graham Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Samuel Lover Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
    Samuel Lover
    English-Irish composer, songwriter and painter (1797 - 1868)
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  • Carlo Ratti Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Ban Ki-moon Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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