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“In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.”

World Children Together Force Common Support Capable Ethics Teamwork Collaboration Unifying

Author:Graca Machel

“Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.”

Children Parent Capable

Book:Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

Source: Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth

“There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.”

Feels Children Littles Self Consciousness Findings Capable Losing Strikes Self Consciousness

Author:Carson McCullers

“No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.”

Humans Children Two Together Speak Language Human Beings Heard Speech Capable Infant Scratches

Book:WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

Source: WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK

“I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.”

People Thinking Believe Children Has Beens Stories Certain Evil Capable Commit Cruelty Good And Evil Unthinkable

Author:Michael Cunningham

“How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!”

Men Children Capable Maturity Immaturity

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.”

Men Feels Children Book Would Be Written Strange Capable Ashamed Instruction Raising Children Strange Man

Book:The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

“To each his own. It's one of those things. How you build your familyyou have to know what you're capable of handling and how your children will relate to each other. Maybe if you have one child and that child has a lot of needs, you realize you cannot give more attention to another. Sometimes you just know as a parent. We felt we could handle more children, and we have a very happy, very full home.”

Ifs Knows Needs Giving Children Sometimes Home Felt Parent Realizing Attention Capable Our Children Handle Relate Our Family Your Children Very Happy Need You

Author:Angelina Jolie

“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”