"The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves."

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Source : Laurens Van Der Post (2010). “A Walk With A White Bushman”, p.49, Random House

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“Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.”
“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.”
“I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.”

Source : "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.
“Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.”
“In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.”
“I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.”

Source : " ‘The Act of Killing’ Director on Dreams, Recognition and Impact" by Joshua Oppenheimer, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2014.
“One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.”

Source : Lincoln Ellsworth (1938). “Beyond Horizons”, New York, Book League of America
“So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be some personal heartache along the way. But when you look your little ones in the eye, you will find your voice and take a stand for them. We are their voices. And we must have the courage to stand up for them, whatever the odds or however powerful the opposition might be.”

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