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In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.

~Bell Hooks

Topics: Black Culture Females Gentle Phrase Possibly Reality Speak Synonymous Tender Those Woman Words

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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

~Benjamin Franklin

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I have never forgotten John Candy's generosity. He showed me how to be a gentle leader.

~Bill Pullman

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It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

~Bob Keeshan

Topics: Being Contention Day Definition Encounter Every Every Day Gentle Importantly Just Most Mugged People Prepare Think Violence World I Think

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It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

~Bob Keeshan

Topics: Children Consider Encounters Everyday Gentle Good Life More Other People Prepared Requires Strength Them Think I Think

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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

~Boy George

Topics: Disappearing Gentle Him Like Person Radiance Separation

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

~C. S. Lewis

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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Bedtime Began Brothers Came Children Classic Down Every Fairy Fairy Tales Fast Gentle Kids Knows Like Lines Pace Pages Paragraphs Parent Praise Read Reading Slow Spark Stories Tales Through Too Used Whole Would

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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

~Carl Sandburg

Topics: Boulder Bush Deep Dig Gentle Root Split Spread Upward

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For any child, boy or girl, a father is both Jedi and Sith: Obi-Wan Kenobi - gentle and calming and good - and Vader, fierce and terrifying.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Any Both Boy Calming Child Father Fierce Gentle Girl Good Terrifying

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