"If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child."

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Source : Jane Gardam (2013). “Old Filth”, p.115, Hachette UK

Jane Gardam

#Children Quotes #How To Love Quotes

“Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.”
“Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.”

Source : "The Unnecessary Depression". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 01, 2009.
“You don't feel you have the same voice in a presidential election if you live in a solid blue or a solid red state. I also don't think we've educated voters well on the different ways in which primaries work in different states. It doesn't need to be the case that you end up with one Democrat and one Republican, you have open primaries, you can have jungle primaries. There are various permutations and combinations of how to do this.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.”

Source : 'Discourses concerning Government' (1698) ch. 2, sect. 18
“Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.”
“In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.”
“Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.”
“I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.”

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