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"Their children learned the lesson of compromise only too well, and it was the application of it to a question of fundamental morals that cost us our civil war. We learned once for all that compromise …"

"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them."

"An idea was beginning to get through, and he wasn’t liking it very well."

"Tagore claims that the first time he experienced the thrill of poetry was when he encountered the children’s rhyme ‘Jal pare/pata nare’ in Iswarchandra Vidyasagar’s Bengali primer Barna Parichay . The…"

"We used to think of cow's milk as a nearly perfect food. However, over the past several years, researchers have found new information that has caused many of us to change our opinion. This has provoke…"

"A real mother, who knows the will of God by experience, will prepare her children also to fulfil it. Such a mother will suffer if she sees her child overfed, effeminate, and dressed-up, for she knows …"

"I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'"

"Teaching children to debate without teaching children to listen is divorce training."

"My mother was the shaping force in my life. Don't ask me how but she always had money for my dancing lessons. She was convinced I was going to be somebody."

"That of beaver skins, of beaver wool, and of gum Senega, has been subjected to higher duties; Great Britain, by the conquest of Canada and Senegal, having got almost the monopoly of those commodities."

"In practice, the enemy has been making much more propaganda for us than we have ourselves."

"Tutu Foundation UK - United Kingdom"

"It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distaste for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools s…"

"The Ramayan, one of the most revered texts in Hinduism, tells the story of a prince called Ram. Dashrath, king of Ayodhya, had three wives but no children. So he conducted a yagna and invoked the gods…"

"The priority has been offering a service and making a difference."

"I am deeply grateful for your welcome in the name of all Americans. As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in this country, which was largely built by such families."

"Institutio Oratoria, English translation by Rev. John Selby Watson"

"Facing the immense complexity of modern social and industrial conditions, there is need to use freely and unhesitatingly the collective power of all of us; and yet no exercise of collective power will…"

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."

"An alphabetical listing of Banjo Paterson's poems"