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Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? - Clarence Darrow

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain (18351910)

Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible - he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are. - Frank Goble

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. - Sir William Haley

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Calvin And Hobbes

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

The word No carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say Yes. - Joyce Maynard