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"“[c] hildren who have not been taught their rights, in a rights-respecting environment, tend to personalize the concept of rights and have difficulty appreciating the rights of others. . . . [C]hildren who have not received children’s rights education tend to believe that having rights means being able to do what you want.”" — Aug 26, 2016 05:55AM
"“[c] hildren who have not been taught their rights, in a rights-respecting environment, tend to personalize the concept of rights and have difficulty appreciating the rights of others. . . . [C]hildren who have not received children’s rights education tend to believe that having rights means being able to do what you want.”" — Aug 26, 2016 05:55AM
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"But when we follow the suggestions of genetic and social instructions without question we relinquish the control of consciousness and become helpless playthings of impersonal forces. 2/2" — Oct 29, 2017 08:19AM
"But when we follow the suggestions of genetic and social instructions without question we relinquish the control of consciousness and become helpless playthings of impersonal forces. 2/2" — Oct 29, 2017 08:19AM
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"The amount of cursing is ridiculous, x.x reminds me of locke lamora...I understand the need to convey the environment and the characters etc... But god this is getting annoying." — Sep 26, 2017 03:11PM
"The amount of cursing is ridiculous, x.x reminds me of locke lamora...I understand the need to convey the environment and the characters etc... But god this is getting annoying." — Sep 26, 2017 03:11PM
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson
“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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