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Adults are obsolete children.
Children
Dr. Seuss

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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Children
William Shakespeare

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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Fathers
William Shakespeare

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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
Family
William Shakespeare

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Language
George Bernard Shaw

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Teachers and Teaching
George Bernard Shaw

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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George Bernard Shaw

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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Youth
George Bernard Shaw

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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
Influence
B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

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Glory is the child of peril.
Glory
Tobias G. Smollett

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Life and Living
Socrates

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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Parents and Parenting
Muriel Spark

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
Age and Aging
Sir Richard Steele

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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Communism and Socialism
Gertrude Stein

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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
God
Gloria Steinem

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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Parents and Parenting
Gloria Steinem

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Children are the keys of paradise.
Children
Richard Henry Stoddard

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Parents and Parenting
Anne Sullivan

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Age and Aging
Abraham Sutzkever

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Don't set your wit against a child.
Parents and Parenting
Jonathan Swift

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Children
Stacia Tauscher

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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Family
Jeremy Taylor

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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Teachers and Teaching
Terence

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Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Childhood
William M. Thackeray

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True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genius.
Genius
Puzant Kevork Thomajan

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun