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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experie

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. – Ellen Key

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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key

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Punishment
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Ellen Key
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Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. – Ellen Key

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War
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A womans life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. – Wallis Simpson

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Experience

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. – Helen Keller

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Experience

Anyone who teaches knows that you dont really experience a text until youve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Experience

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. – Michael Bloomberg

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