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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory chil

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. – William E. Gladstone

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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become ones key to the experience of others. – James A. Baldwin

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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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If you havent read you dont have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience. – George Saunders

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In my circle of friends, Ive always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I dont want the spotlight on me. – Rosie Perez

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Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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