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Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100. ”
They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans. ”
I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them. ”
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. ”
I am most peremptorily of opinion against putting children extremely forward. If they desire it themselves, I would not balk them, for I love to attend to these unsophisticated indications. But otherwise, 'festina lente' is my maxim in education. ”
Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness. ”
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. ”
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. ”
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ”
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. ”