"Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense."

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Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

Penelope Leach

#Children Quotes #Answers Quotes #Half Quotes

“I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.”
“You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.”
“My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.”
“What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?”
“I always have a ton of projects in mind. On my ToodleDo list, I divide projects into those I'm actively working on, those I'm not doing but believe I will do, and those that sound good, but who knows if I'll ever get to them.”
“Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.”

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“We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.”
“He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.”

Source : John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.195

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