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William C Bryant : Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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William Cullen Bryant : " Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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William C Bryant : " Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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Richard Rorty : " Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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Samuel Smiles : " The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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Samuel Warren : " What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of effort required to accomplish something! A mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a scarecrow to children and fools and a stimulus to real men. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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Alice Munro : " The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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Richard P Feynman : " Why should we care about Feynman? What was so special about him? Why did he become a public icon, standing with Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking as the Holy Trinity of twentieth-century physics? The public has demonstrated remarkably good taste in choosing its icons. All three of them are genuinely great scientists, with flashes of true genius as well as solid accomplishments to their credit. But to become an icon, it is not enough to be a great scientist. There are many other scientists, not so great as Einstein but greater than Hawking and Feynman, who did not become icons. ... Scientists who become icons must not only be geniuses but also performers, playing to the crowd and enjoying public acclaim. Einstein and Feynman both grumbled about the newspaper and radio reporters who invaded their privacy, but both gave the reporters what the public wanted, sharp and witty remarks that would make good headlines. Hawking in his unique way also enjoys the public adulation that his triumph over physical obstacles has earned for him. I will never forget the joyful morning in Tokyo when Hawking went on a tour of the streets in his wheelchair and the Japanese crowds streamed after him, stretching out their hands to touch his chair. Einstein, Hawking, and Feynman shared an ability to break through the barriers that separated them from ordinary people. The public responded to them because they were regular guys, jokers as well as geniuses. The third quality that is needed for a scientist to become a public icon is wisdom. Besides being a famous joker and a famous genius, Feynman was also a wise human being whose answers to serious questions made sense. To me and to hundreds of other students who came to him for advice, he spoke truth. Like Einstein and Hawking, he had come through times of great suffering, nursing Arline through her illness and watching her die, and emerged stronger. Behind his enormous zest and enjoyment of life was an awareness of tragedy, a knowledge that our time on earth is short and precarious. The public made him into an icon because he was not only a great scientist and a great clown but also a great human being and a guide in time of trouble. Other Feynman books have portrayed him as a scientific wizard and as a storyteller. This collection of letters shows us for the first time the son caring for his father and mother, the father caring for his wife and children, the teacher caring for his students, the writer replying to people throughout the world who wrote to him about their problems and received his full and undivided attention. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin : " America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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Martin Luther : " The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error beget free-will and presumption; free-will beget works; works beget forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness beget transgression; transgression beget superstition; superstition beget satisfaction; satisfaction beget the mass-offering; the mass-offering beget the priest; the priest beget unbelief; unbelief beget hypocrisy; hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory; Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils beget church-livings; church-livings beget avarice; avarice beget swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity beget fulness; fulness beget rage; rage beget license; license beget empire and domination; domination beget pomp; pomp beget ambition; ambition beget simony; simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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George Washington : " Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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Augustine Birrell : " A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. " # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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William C Bryant: " Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep." # Change # Marriage # Peace

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William C Bryant: " Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign." # Pain # Death and Dying # Desire

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William C Bryant: " Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness." # Remorse # Repentance # Money

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William C Bryant: " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear." # Sadness # Love # Love Ended

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William C Bryant: " Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger." # Truth # Love # Mistakes

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William C Bryant: " Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness --a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." # Adversity # Children # Awareness

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William C Bryant: " All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom." # Death and Dying # Family # Dreams

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