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Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Aid Always Been Children Disappointed Discouraged Disposition Expect Expectations Expecting Favor Helpless Leaning Lives Met Others Same Seen Them Through Waited Whole Will Yield

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Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Act Birth Born Children Control Corrupted Evil Families Fathers He Lethargy Me Minds Mistrust Mothers Possession Satan Seed Seems Sowing Take Tell Them Though Very Why You Young

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Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: About Attire Becoming Children Clothing Corn Crows Frighten Gratifying Husbands Images Like Look Make Merely More Put See Should Sisters Strangers Than Them Visitors Which Work Would

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Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Alone Blended Children Disciplined Duty Headstrong Left Love Make May Must Neglected Order Perverse Properly Result Selfish Similar Soften Stand Stern While Will Win Without

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I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Charms Children Desired Everything Him Jesus Men See I See

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I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that, but I'm too single-minded. I can't stand to be interrupted, whether I'm writing a story or dressing a child.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Babies Care Child Children Conceive Dressing Interrupted Know Nursing Single-Minded Stand Story Taking Too Whether Writers Writing

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There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

~Ellen Glasgow

Topics: Between Children Difference Fun Half Men Much Skins Them Were World

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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

~Ellen Goodman

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The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

~Ellen Gustafson

Topics: Abundance Adult America Cardiovascular Cheap Children Develop Diabetes Diet Disease Food Havoc Health Likely Low More Obese Our Overweight Third Two Value Western

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80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

~Ellen Hollman

Topics: Afford Children Correction Disadvantage Learning Percent Vision Visual Who

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