"There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge."

-- Barbara Park

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“Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.”
“But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.”
“I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.”
“I truly have come to believe that there are only two states of being that generate our thoughts: LOVE or FEAR.”
“I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.198, Broadway Books
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.”
“There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.”

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