"Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well."

Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Kenneth Keniston

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“I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don't like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging.”
“Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Ã‰owyn!”
“If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.”

Source : "Kesha Rogers, Texas Democrat And Anti-Obama Nominee, Disavowed By Party Members". Interview with Gene Demby, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.
“I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.”
“I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.”
“All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.”

Source : William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.53
“Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.”
“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions which can operate upon the human mind.”

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