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James Agee : In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God. # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Ashley Montagu : " By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being. " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Daniel C Dennett : " The distinction between responsible moral agents and beings with diminished or no responsibility is coherent, real, and important. It is coherent, even if in many instances it is hard to apply; it draws an empirically real line, in that we don't all fall on one side; and, most important, the distinction matters: the use we make of it plays a crucial role in the quality and meaning of our lives. [...] We want to hold ourselves and others responsible, but we recognize that our intuitions often support the judgement that a particular individual has "diminished responsibility" because of his or her infirmities, or because of particularly dire circumstances upon upbringing or at the time of action. We also find it plausible to judge that nonhuman animals, infants, and those who are severely handicapped mentally are not responsible at all. But since we are all more or less imperfect, will there be anyone left to be responsible after we have excused all those with good excuses? [...] We must set up some efficiently determinable threshold for legal competence, never for a moment supposing that there couldn't be intuitively persuasive "counterexamples" to whatever line we draw, but declaring in advance that such pleas will not be entertained. [...] The effect of such an institution [...] is to create [...] a class of legally culpable agents whose subsequent liability to punishment maintains the credibility of the sanctions of the laws. The institution, if it is to maintain itself, must provide for the fine tuning of its arbitrary thresholds as new information (or misinformation) emerges that might undercut its credibility. One can speculate that there is an optimal setting of the competence threshold (for any particular combination of social circumstances, degree of public sophistication, and so on) that maximizes the bracing effect of the law. A higher than optimal threshold would encourage a sort of malingering on the part of the defendants, which, if recognized by the populace, would diminish their respect for the law and hence diminish its deterrent effect. And a lower than optimal threshold would yield a diminishing return of deterrence and lead to the punishment of individuals who, in the eyes of society, "really couldn't help it." The public perception of the fairness of the law is a critical factor in its effectiveness. " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Carl Jung : " Because we cannot discover God's throne in the sky with a radiotelescope or establish (for certain) that a beloved father or mother is still about in a more or less corporeal form, people assume that such ideas are "not true." I would rather say that they are not "true" enough, for these are conceptions of a kind that have accompanied human life from prehistoric times, and that still break through into consciousness at any provocation. " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Peace Pilgrim : " Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Henry Miller : " And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Elizabeth Janeway : " Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Woodrow T Wilson : " Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Richard P Feynman : " We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Bill Cosby : " No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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Fran Lebowitz : " Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. " # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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James Agee: " You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." # Action

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James Agee: " A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children." # Children # Mothers # Parents and Parenting

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James Agee: " Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense." # Truth # Compassion # Lies and Lying

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James Agee: " In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God." # Responsibility # Parents and Parenting # Children

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