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When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings. Nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are up on their own feet
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First, It was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy Name.


— Solemnization of Marriage, Exhortation.

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No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. Palmerston

Grace ne  e  Goodside Paley

— 1992  Begin Again: New and Collected Poems,'Stanzas: Old Age and the Conventions of Retirement Have Driven My Friends from theWorkThey Love'.

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The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.

carson grant

— Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, "Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art", Denise's Interviews and Media News, p.1
— About his thought on the Arts

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If you analyze a host of real world outcomes using adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.

steve sailer

— Sailer, Steve (October 25, 2012). A Short, Stylized Dialogue On Epigenetics. VDARE.com. Retrieved on October 27, 2012.

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With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

jane addams

— Ch. 9 (Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910))

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Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them.

julian assange

— "Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks". TED: Ideas Worth Spreading (www.ted.com). July 2010. Retrieved on 2010-07-22. 

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The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

edward bellamy

— Ch. 9 (Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888))

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We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

stephen covey

— ? p. 62 (Disputed)

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When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

warren farrell

— p. 71. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)

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Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.

warren farrell

— p. 163. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)

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There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

jerry ford

— Speech to the International Eucharistic Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as quoted in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner (13 August 1976)

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The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society’s "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world the power that creates the nation’s real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political system.

thomas frank

— Ibid. (p. 128)

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Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

leymah gbowee

— Interview for Women's E News, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century (2008)

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Recognizing the equality of all men and women, we are willing and able to lift the weak, cradle those who hurt, and nurture the bonds that tie us together as one nation under God.

ronald reagan

— Address accepting the Republican presidential nomination (23 August 1984)

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Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.


— Interview for Women's E News, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century (2008)

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If China wants to take economic development to its next stage’, Song argues, ‘it will have to nurture the market-based economy and establish a more robust and adaptable regulatory framework, providing fair access for both SOEs and private companies to capital and technology and creating a social culture that builds entrepreneurial capabilities and extends respect to the contribution that entrepreneurship makes.


— Ligang Song identifies over-reliance on state intervention and the stranglehold of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as the Chinese economy’s Achilles heel, quoted on East Asia Forum, "Can China keep growing?", January 28, 2013.

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We will need to become savvy about how to build relationships, how to nurture growing, evolving things. All of us will need better skills in listening, communicating, and facilitating groups, because these are the talents that build strong relationships.


— Margaret Wheatley (1992) Leadership and the New Science. p. 38.

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My whole professional training was to prolong life, to nurture and protect it. Abortion is clearly at odds with that ethos...[yet] I have never refused to perform an abortion because of any personal conflict...


— Dr. Bertram Wainer, abortionist, From Magda Denes, PhD. In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death Inside an Abortion Hospital.

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

john lennon

— John Lennon "Man of Decade" Interview (December 2, 1969)

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