"If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important."

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Source : Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.11, WaterBrook

Wess Stafford

#Children Quotes #Important Quotes #Negative Influence Quotes

“You're always trying to motivate your players. There's a time and a place for a speech that would try to motivate your players, especially if as a coach you knew that the cards were stacked against you a little bit.”
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”
“All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.”
“Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness...”
“It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.”
“The death of the spirit is the price of progress.”

Source : Eric Voegelin (2012). “The New Science of Politics: An Introduction”, p.131, University of Chicago Press
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

Source : "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.
“Smart work pays best. Trust it.”

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