Tom Vilsack Quotes
The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
Quotes to Explore
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
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Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)
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Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
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Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.
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Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.
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The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.
