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“Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.”

Wells Children Philosophy Father Conditions Comfortable Desirable

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.”

Ifs Men World Children Conditions Planets Every Man Men Women Redeemer

Author:Sun Ra

“The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.”

“The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.”

Men Children Poverty Conditions Fellows Extremes Declaration Fellow Man Solemn Pledge Men Women Millennium Extreme Poverty

Author:Kevin Watkins

“To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.”

Humans Children Hands Human Beings Conditions Particular Models Drawing Human Condition Adoration Old Woman

Author:Frederick Franck

“I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.”

Ifs Trying Children Country Action School Girl Asks Names Conditions Raised Noble Uplifting Village Glorify

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.”

“If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.”

Ifs Want Firsts Children Conditions Accepted Kingdoms Just One Kingdom Of God

Author:John Ruskin

“The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis.”

Should Children Eye Law Young Hours Race Watches Four Conditions Television Bases Twenties Incessant Mutants

Author:Federico Fellini

“I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.”

Ifs Thinking Children Suffering Evil Grows Poor Growing Up Conditions Shadow Abuse Tendencies Educated Collectives Manifest Humiliated Diabolical Inhumane

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.”

Men Children Self Running Joy Parent Imagination Fantasy Environment Modern Conditions Fine Seeking Self Respect Modern Man

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.”

Looks Children Care Courses Existence Situation Conditions Balance Adopted Adaptation Mixtures Motor Assimilation Efficacy Schemas

Author:Jean Piaget