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"Alexander McCall Smith's Personal Website"

"But not in my family. My mother and father assumed the American tongue would reinvent their children. Just so did several immigrant Hispanic mothers in Southern California recently remark their childr…"

"I have been astonished before, and doubtless shall be again, how the kindliest and most sympathetic of women can pettify and downgrade the searing anguishes of childhood."

"The writer is a “somewhat mystical” — or do I mean “mythical”? — person."

"We weren't where we were in those times because we had been thrown or moved there. We didn't think so. We felt we had impelled ourselves, like the faring pioneers and immigrants driving their wagons o…"

"Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. — Houghton Mifflin, 1962."

"Don't be afraid of anything, just take it easy, easy. Let the women and children go first. Thirty buses are coming, we're send you off toward Kladanj. Don't be afraid of anything, nobody is going to d…"

"were not so frightfully different from those put forward by the Committee of Five . But the latter were of respectable parentage: and the Paris ones were too much like the off-the-stage arrangements o…"

"I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle."

"'Father, why is the sky blue?' - the child is not really interested in the sky as such; the real stake of the question is to expose father's impotence, his helplessness in the face of the hard fact, t…"

"I'm not the person who looks back or looks forward. I try to live in what is now."

"She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season."

"Bill Nye doesn’t want parents to be allowed to teach their children about God. He wants to brainwash kids, to indoctrinate them in his naturalistic religion of meaninglessness and hopelessness."

"If they had set out to kill six million Jews they would have done it. But all we hear about is Holocaust survivors. "Oh, we know it happened, cause over there is a survivor. Oh, my mother and father w…"

"Akbar had prohibited enslavement and sale of women and children of peasants who had defaulted in payment of revenue. He knew, as Abul Fazl says, that many evil hearted and vicious men either because o…"

"Mark Curtis' personal web site"

"Love and Dread are brethren, and they are rooted in us by the Goodness of our Maker, and they shall never be taken from us without end. We have of nature to love and we have of grace to love: and we h…"

"It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who'd had children and I think they're the song lines of your experience…"

"Calvert Family Tree ."

"A nation should always be healthily rebellious; but the king or prime minister has yet to be found who will make trouble by cultivating that side of the national spirit. A child should begin to assert…"