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		It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexander Lowen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hailey Gates
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Natsuki Takaya
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Forest Whitaker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sigmund Freud
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Paton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I was thinking about naming my child Kanye.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				ASAP Rocky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wendy Kopp
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Mrs. Goldenthal's twin boys, Alex and Erno, were our age, and I discovered that they had been selected at Auschwitz for Mengele's experiments like us. Mrs. Goldenthan had stayed with them, and I found out later that she had hidden a younger child, Margarita, underneath her long skirt. She had come into the camp with the child hidden in her dress and during her entire stay there, even in the Nazi barracks where she had kept Margarita under the mattress during inspections, she and the other women had helped conceal the child.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eva Mozes Kor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Though Dutch, I was considered of Aryan race and my child -- otherwise shamed as uneheliches Kind, conceived out of wedlock -- might just be accepted into the Lebensborn program and raised by a good German family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pam Jenoff