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title: "4 Notion Children Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-mandela/we-understand-and-promote-the-notion-that-while-children-need-to-be/)

[Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-mandela/)

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> [We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-chilton-pearce/we-have-a-cultural-notion-that-if-children-were-not-engineered-if-we/)

[Joseph Chilton Pearce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-chilton-pearce/)

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> [There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-h-eg/there-s-a-widespread-notion-that-children-are-open-that-the-truth/)

[Peter Høeg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-h-eg/)

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> [“The notion of children makes me ill. The thought of having one... when you see those guys in the supermarket, wheeling the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-niven/the-notion-of-children-makes-me-ill-the-thought-of-having-one-when/)

[John Niven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-niven/)

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