"The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability."

-- Steve Biddulph

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“Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.”
“I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.”
“At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.”
“I'm a little superstitious.”
“Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.”
“Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.”
“Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered.”

Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Survival, I know, is to begin again.”

Source : Judy Collins (1989). “Trust Your Heart”, Fawcett

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