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.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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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.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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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.
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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.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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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.
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
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Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
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Whenever I look at a baby or children in general, I smile and just want to play with them.
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The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.
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Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
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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.
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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.'
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To Her, whose children's smiles fed the narrator's fancy and were his rich reward: from the Author.
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Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.
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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.
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And who would deny the intellect and will of girls? That would be questioning their full humanity. On the average, abstract and mere intellectual activity is not suitable for them; they want to understand reality completely, and they want to comprehend not merely with the intellect but also with the heart.
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Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.
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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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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.
