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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people under

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. – Nina Bawden

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People who dont read seem to me mysterious. I dont know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education. – Nina Bawden

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Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. – Nina Bawden

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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. – Cesare Pavese

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Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. – Guy Verhofstadt

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I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. – Vita Sackville-West

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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak. – Ann Richards

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What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then youre going to have enormous impact on America, thats a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age. – Michael Bloomberg

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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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