"Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk."

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Source : "Should we drop kids off at the park - by themselves?", www.today.com. May 21, 2010.

C. Everett Koop

#Nature Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have learned to take a bit more off and rest a little deeper.”
“Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.”
“You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.”
“I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.”
“As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.”

Source : Andrew Murray (2001). “Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness”, p.48, Baker Books
“The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.”
“I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.”
“In America, law substitutes for custom.”

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