"Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them."

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Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.80, Oneworld Publications

Simon Van Booy

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“A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.”

Source : "If This Is a Man". Book by Primo Levi, 1947.
“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.”

Source : Thomas Lickona (2004). “Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.”
“I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.”
“I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.”
“Is this the reality you wanted?!”
“I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.”
“You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .”

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