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“There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.”

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Tom Wicker

Tom Wicker, born on June 18, 1927, was an accomplished American journalist. He is renowned for his exceptional career in the news industry, known for his in-depth investigative reporting and sharp political insights. more

“For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.”

Firsts Mean Children Doe Taken Conditions Baby Training Oneself Condescending Childishness Baby Talk

Book:The Century of the Child

Source: The Century of the Child

“Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.”

Giving Pain Effects Shame Punishment Humiliating Physical Pain Corporal Punishment

Book:The Century of the Child

Source: The Century of the Child

“We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.”

Ifs Music Possession Invisible Relaxed Conductor

Book:The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

Source: The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

“I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.”

Looks Bigs Bits Cooks Restaurants Cauldrons

Author:Peter Brook

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