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People who dont read seem to me mysterious. I dont know how they t

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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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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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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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Lets remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day. – Armstrong Williams

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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. – Woody Allen

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