Quote by Anna Quindlen
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising chil

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? – Anna Quindlen

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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But youd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. – Anna Quindlen

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Future
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and dont discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, its stupid. Banning books shows you dont trust your kids to think and you dont trust yourself to be able to talk to them. – Anna Quindlen

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Trust
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. – Sophocles

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He whom many fear, has himself many to fear. – Publilius Syrus

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Cruelty is a tyrant thats always attended with fear. – Thomas Fuller

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Most fear stems from sin to limit ones sins, one must assuredly limit ones fear, thereby bringing more peace to ones spirit. – Marvin Gaye

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In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Confidence and superiority: Its the usual fundamentalist stuff: Ive got the truth, and you havent. – Jeanette Winterson

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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. Im definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time! – Taylor Lautner

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I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. – Judy Collins

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