Ninian Smart Quotes
Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
Quotes to Explore
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in education and infrastructure while encouraging business growth.
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What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
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An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.
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Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
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Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.
