We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

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Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. ― Charles Eastman

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I want to tell the children of the world, you are all our children, each one of you is my child and I love you all.

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But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.

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To go wrong in one’s own way is better then to go right in someone else’s. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ― George Bernard Shaw

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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

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Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.

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