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"But the sense of mutual responsibility is, after all, the prime
"But the sense of mutual responsibilty is, after all, the prime
educational factor in family life.  Every good parent has a feeling
of accoountability for the acts of his children.  He may believe
in self-determination for the small States about him, but after all
he holds a mandate.  The delightful interweaving of parental
suggestion with the original tendencies of the various children
is the delicate thing that makes each family individual.  It is
also the delicate thing that makes parenthood a nervous occupation.
When parental suggestion is going to interweave delightfully as
planned, and when it is not going to interweave at all, is
something not foretold in the prophets."
        --Frances & Gertrude Warner, 
        extract from _Life's Minor Collisions_  (c1921)

"She's ugly because she smokes."

               -- Lauren Delizia, age 8, spoken of a woman
                  smoking outside Kroger.


"Everybody in here is black!"

              -- Lauren Delizia, age 7, spoken of the employees
                 and customers of Southfield Toys 'R' Us

[It should be noted that Lauren has an unusually loud and distinct
voice.]

"Leadership ... is the ability to get other people to get the
very best from themselves.  Accomplishing this depends not upon 
persuading others to follow you but upon succeeding in getting 
them to join you."
                        -- Marvin D. Levy 

[please note, if you are not familiar with Screwtape, that this is 
a work of fiction in the guise of advice from an old devil 
to younger ones]
        "... I am credibly informed that young humans now sometimes
suppress an incipient taste for classical music or good literature 
because it might prevent their Being Like Folks; that people who would 
really wish to be -- and are offered the Grace which would enable them 
to be -- honest, chaste, or temperate refuse it.  To accept might make 
them Different, might offend against the Way of Life, take them out of 
Togetherness, impair their Integration with the Group.  They might 
(horror of horrors!) become individuals."
        -- C.S. Lewis, "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"

"Life is like juggling crystal balls and rubber balls.  Success depends
on knowing which is which."

Hee! I love the smoking quote, Michael...

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