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When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of Monrovia to children who have never known water from a tap. Efforts are underway to expand water projects as much as possible throughout the country.

~Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Topics: Began Brought Children Clean Clean Water Country Efforts Expand Heart Known Much Neglect Never Office Our Our People People Possible Projects Recover Tap Throughout Took Water Who Years

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The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

~Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Topics: Again Also Begin Children Clean Clean Water Deprived Faith Future Hope Know Means Our People Restoration See Smile Water

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The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Allowed Art Avoiding Child Children Consists Control Education Environment Faults Go Growing Growing Up Ignoring Immediate Interference Itself Mistake Natural Nine Out Ten Times Up Vigilance Watching Which Whole

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The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Aesthetic Art Become Bringing Children Creation Demands Equal Ethics Expect Family Family Life Feel Flowers Forth Gardens Happy Homes Husbands Interest Life Living Long Need Our Servants Take Them Window Women

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The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Also Better Children Judge Man Might Minister Often Pastor Surpass Than Them Understanding Woman Women Women And Children Would

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Only by keeping oneself in constant process of growth, under the constant influence of the best things in one's own age, does one become a companion halfway good enough for one's children.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Age Become Best Children Companion Constant Does Enough Good Growth Halfway Influence Keeping Oneself Only Own Process Things

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In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Authority Begin Childhood Children Creates Fists Foundation Help Might Mothers Must Order Overcome Right Spirit Teach Tender War Without Years

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Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Cause Children Defeat Does Fact Fight Fought Glory Greatest Help Help Others Heroes Impressed Made Must Nor Others Power Prove Proves Right Thing Those Understand Victory Who Wrong

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Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Binding Certainly Children Conditions Destroy Duty Form Imperfect Marriage May Means Often Outward Preached Present Sake Universally

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I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

~Ellen Potter

Topics: Books Children Fiction Fun Had Kids Literary Literary Fiction Long Long Time More Much Myself Resisted Saw Time Writer Writing

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