There are some circumstances, for example, where the newborn baby is severely disabled and where the parents think that it's better that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
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We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
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You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The best inheritance parents can ever give a child is a good name;it's yours to use for as long as you may… — Christine Nalo Copy Share Image
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
America has about three times as many abortions as they have in Norway, or Sweden, or Nordic countries, and they don't have… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we could get to… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Whatever you give a woman , she will multiply it . If you give her sperm , she'll give you a child… — JustAnotherGirl Copy Share Image
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
You read a bunch of books and you get a bunch of how-tos, and you take a bunch of classes and you… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
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What I do for a living is whimsical and fun and ridiculous. I'm supposed to make people laugh. We all have that… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I will appoint men and women to the Federal judiciary who share my view of unborn children as constitutionally protected and who… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Reading to my daughter has been therapeutic. I've gone back and started to learn to read on a very basic level. I'm… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Mark Jones is mad as a hatter. But, he's great. He's really, really into music. I know he's married and he's got… — Susan Ann Sulley Copy Share Image
Like any parent, they've been extremely supportive of my racing throughout my childhood. I mean, my mom says that she didn't want… — Kyle Larson Copy Share Image
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I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. If you have a partner who you believe is… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Yeah, this album is dedicated to all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothin', to all the people that… — Christopher Wallace Copy Share Image
I swear on my children's lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone's records. All I do… — Luis Suarez Copy Share Image
Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams.… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
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No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
