Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 7322.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
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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) -
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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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.
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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.
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
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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) -
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) -
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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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.
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