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  • Gloria Steinem Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bob Filner Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • David Leavitt Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
    The Stories of David Leavitt (2013) 4
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Sigmund Freud Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • John Bradshaw Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • François Fénelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Dr. James C. Dobson Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
    Dr. James C. Dobson
    American evangelical Christian author
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  • Aldous Huxley Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Hicks Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Ogden Nash Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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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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  • Carlos Fuentes Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Anne Sullivan Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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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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  • William Shakespeare Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Bernanke China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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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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