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"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Hubbard, Elbert on parents and parenting
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"I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex."

Handey, Jack on children
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"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults."

Vries, Peter De on marriage
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"Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?"

Kraus, Karl on army and navy    Share

"In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children."

Ruskin, John on children    Share

"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."

Lebowitz, Fran on beauty
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."

Szasz, Thomas on happiness
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"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

Edgeworth, Maria on confidence
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived."

Saying, Zen on zen
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"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."

Herbert, George on forgiveness
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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