"Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off."

-- F. Paul Wilson

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“I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.”
“On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.”

Source : "Kerry: Bush uses terrorism threat for campaign" by Mike Rosell, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2004.
“Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas.”
“There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.”

Source : Harry Stack Sullivan (1953). “The collected works”
“Take my heart with you, baby girl. It follows youâ€¦.always...”
“I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.6, Oxford University Press
“I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.”

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