"There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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"Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men."

— Pythagoras

Mathematics-570–-495

#family

"A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter li…"

— Mark Twain

Literature1835–1910

#life

"There have been a number of instances in the Bible where the Spirit of God has acted in a birth. For instance, in the story of Abraham and Sarah, Sarah was too old and Abraham was also old. But the Bi…"

— Sun Myung Moon

Politics1920–2012

#family

"If you make Muslims one hundred per cent mindful of their supererogatory prayers, making them all very pious, but leave them cut off from the wider environment, ignorant of where the country is headin…"

— Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

Literature1913–1999

#leadership