"Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant."

-- David Attenborough

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“I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all.”
“It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.”
“Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.”
“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”
“Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.”
“He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.”
“You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.”
“It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms . . .”

Source : Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann

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