"Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then……" — Maurice Sendak

"Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things."

— Maurice Sendak

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
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I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. — Julie Burchill
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Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from… — Tadao Ando
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and… — Warren E. Burger
Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born… — James A. Baldwin
I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. — Byron Katie
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