"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else."

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Source : "Prenticeana: Or, Wit and Humor in Paragraphs". Book by George D. Prentice, 1859.

George D. Prentice

#Children Quotes #People Quotes

“Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.”
“Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.”
“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.”
“As I worked to explain how to avoid bad strategy, I began to see that one cannot really evaluate or criticize a strategy unless there is a fairly clear statement of the problem the strategy is trying to solve.”
“My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.”
“There is no "I" in "Team," but there is an "E" for "Everyone." A team achieves more when everyone contributes.”
“I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.”
“Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.”

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