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“If we want to give our children what they need to thrive, we must honor their basic nature- boyish or girlish, introverted or extroverted, wild or mellow.”
― Wendy Mogel, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children

“This is human. It happened before. The Spanish, in the Inquisition, under God, destroyed an entire population. What about the Albigenses ? It can happen again. We are all good people, but if we are led a little too far, we are going to believe everything we are told. We are ordinary people, who can also be weapons for evil Hitlers.”
― Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

“Most of his life was played out to a soundtrack of sadistic decibelage.”
― Martin Amis, London Fields

“And, as in the sunburst of the Renaissance,
Paint shall be gorgeous and, I hope, holy? —KARL SHAPIRO, Trial of a Poet”
― John Updike, Seek My Face: A Novel