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Quote by Margaret Wise Brown

“there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.”

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Margaret Wise Brown was an American children's literature writer, born on May 23, 1910, and died on November 13, 1952. Her works are known for their warm and intimate style and profound understanding of the child's emotional world. more

“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.”

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Author:Nina Bawden

“We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.”

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Author:Keith Stroup

“As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.”

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Author:J.A. Konrath

“When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.”

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Author:Cornelius Van Til

“There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.”

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Author:Cornelius Van Til

“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.”

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Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

Quote by Margaret Wise Brown

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