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“Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.”

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B. C. Forbes was an American journalist and publisher, born on May 14, 1880, and died on May 6, 1954. He is best known for founding Forbes magazine, which focuses on business, wealth, and investment. more

“The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.”

Ifs Children Made Mother Artist Values Passion Given Break Greater Greatness Birth Limits Equal Lust Made It Empires Destroying Murderer Statues Vandals

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.”

Children Causes Beats Offense

Author:Austin O'Malley

“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”

Action Speech Empty Vain

Author:Demosthenes

“Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.”

Children Knowing Strange Adults Treats Instinct

Author:Art Linkletter

“He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.”

Children Said Artificial Respiration

Author:Anthony Burgess

“It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!”

Thinking Firsts Children Natural Work Effort Teach Draws Instinct Natural Instinct

Book:Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art

Source: Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art

“Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?”

Children Grass

Book:Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy

Source: Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy

“I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.”

Way Want Children Artist Lost Parent Circumstances Losing Twenties Backgrounds Homosexual Blueprints Only Child

Book:A Private Function

Source: A Private Function

“When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.”

Children Body Kids Turns Aliens

Author:Alan Alda

“I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.”

Know Yourself Entertainers

Author:Pablo Picasso

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