William C. Menninger Quotes
It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.
William C. Menninger
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
Karen Salmansohn
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
Randall L. Stephenson
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
Barbara Mertz
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
Inga Muscio
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
Warren Farrell
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Presently we discovered two or three villages, and the people all came down to the shore, calling out to us, and giving thanks to God.… An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: 'Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink.'
Christopher Columbus
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To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author.
Lewis Carroll
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Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.
Clayton Christensen
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My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
Brené Brown
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My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.
Dav Pilkey
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Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.
Frank Abagnale
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We knew we could not raise our son, John, under this repressive regime. So it was just a question of when we were going to leave Cuba. And we couldn't tell anyone because that would expose others to danger. So we left through Mexico in 1964, arriving in the United States soon after. Right before we left, however, there were terrible scenes with Margarita's family and our colleagues in the dance world, who saw us as traitors. It was an incredibly difficult time for us.
John Whiting
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Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the diminution of capital. Every reduction of capital is therefore necessarily followed by a less effective demand for corn, by a fall in price, and by diminished cultivation.
David Ricardo
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It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.
Lena Dunham
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The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.
Lao Tzu
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It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.
William C. Menninger
