"It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth."

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China Mieville

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.”
“Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.”

Source : "Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?". Article by Greta Christina, www.alternet.org. May 14, 2010.
“You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.”
“A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.”
“So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations.”
“Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.”
“Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on.”
“I've been a Democrat all my life.”

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