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“Shield children from everything false; guard them against worthless music; protect them from obscenity; protect them from false competitions; protect them from affirmation of selfhood. The more so, since it is necessary to inculcate a love for incessant learning. The muscles must not gain the upper hand over mind and heart.”
— Agni Yoga, New Era Community (1926), sect. 116. Reported in Harold Balyoz, Three Remarkable Women (1986), p. 97
“Nothing matters more to a child than a place to call home.”
— Brenda Donald, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources, "Brenda Donald: Mission possible for Maryland: 1,000 new foster parents by 2010", Examiner.com (5 February 2008)
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
— Carl Jung, The Integration of the Personality (1939)
“Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.”
— Alice Meynell, Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (London: Duckworth and Co., 1903), "Introductory Note", p. 5
“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”
— Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973), Emotions
“The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.”
— Lydia Sigourney, p. 53.

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