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«In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?»
Author: Antonio Gramsci
(Founder, Politician)
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Before and After, clear-cut, develops, extraneous, first period, impetuously, insufferable, intervention, interventions, odious, phases, puberty, scene, second period, specific, THE stick, tyrannical
«However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.»
«I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.»
Author: Penelope Cruz
(Actress)
| About:
Celibacy,
Relationships
| Keywords:
girlfriend, scene, stepped
«I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.»
Author: Tara Reid
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Eyes,
Power,
Sex,
Women
| Keywords:
physical thing, scene, sexy
«He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.»
«It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fierce»
«I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.»
«I forgot out there on the stage to thank my cast. So if I could do that now, I want to thank Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld. I thought the love scene between Cheney and Rumsfeld brought a tear to my eye.»
Author: Michael Moore
(Author, Film Director)
| Keywords:
Cheney, Donald, Donald Rumsfeld, forgot, Paul, Rumsfeld, scene
«It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
as if by magic, familiar, familiar with, function, magic, perception, renew, scene, shakes, writer
«How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!»
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