"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated.”

Source : "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.
“People think I like to expose my body. But I don't. It's just because the dance moves require it.”
“I am fonder of my garden for the trouble it gives me.”
“There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.”
“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.”
“What is of consequence is I did my best.”
“Don't sacrifice what you wish for most for what you wish for now”
“Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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