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"Do not take too much control of the young, nor of the infant, but do not therefore do the opposite, either; do not make it prematurely old, lest it drink the bitterness of not being allowed to be young when one is young, and for a second time drink the bitterness of not having been allowed to be young when one was young."  


-Soren Kierkegaard in "Think about Your Creator" in Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
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powerful keith. a picture's worth a thousand words.
8/24/2005 11:31:00 AM
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