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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." - Cicero, 42 B.C.

"One of the things adults do, and above all in schools, is invade, in every possible way, the lives and privacy of their students. There are master keys to the students' 'lockers' in schools, so that administrators may search them any time they feel like it. There are almost no places in most schools where students may talk together. The whole hair battle, which some schools, thank goodness, have given up, was only a way of saying, 'Nothing about you is yours, everything about you is ours, you belong wholly to us, you can withhold nothing.' And I think with deep regret and shame of the times when I, like millions of other adults, scolding a child or ordering him about, have said, 'Take that expression off your face!' It seems now an extraordinary and unforgivable crime against the human person, the human spirit." John Holt in What Do I Do Monday?

"A man may cling desperately to the belief that Jesus loves him because he is certain that nobody else does. Thus Christianity can all too easily...turn into a religion of hate and despair." John Holt in What Do I Do Monday?

"Friends may come and go, but enemies tend to accumulate." Uncle Festers Wit of the Day

"If we continue to send our children to Caesar for their education, we need to stop being surprised when they come home as Romans." Voddie Baucham

"To trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we couldn't be trusted." John Holt

"Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?" Uncle Festers Wit of the Day

"I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, impulse buying and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That's my idea of a divine day." Cassie in How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)by Kathy Lette

"Ironic how you can't get kids out of their beds in the morning but you can't get them into their beds at night." Kathy Lette in How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)

"It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to stray, worm-riddled dogs, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won't sit next to his sister because of 'Girl Germs'." Kathy Lette in How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)

the last ten magazines I've read

Byron Child December - February 2004 Cover Stories: Ending the Violence: Non-Violent Communication; Spanking: What it does to kids; Frankenstein Food: Genetically modified ebacles; Supermen and Unsung Heros: The return of fatherhood.
Byron Child September - November 2004 Cover Stories: The Pandoras Box of Prenatal Testing: Are you getting the whole story?; Fathers of Colour Speak Out; Childcare: A feminist issue; The Politicisation of Love.
Byron Child June 2003 Cover Stories: The Spirit of Learning: Australia's Real Education Conference; Good Job! Why to stop saying it; Looking Past the Behaviour; Healing Abortion.
Byron Child June - August 2004 Cover Stories: Intact! Protecting our boys from circumcision: Whole child, whole world; Creating a Children's Garden; Discipline: Parenting without punishment; The Intelligence of the Heart.
Fortean Times FT258, February 2010 Cover Stories: Illuminati X-Factor: Who really controls the world's stars?; The Occult Celebrity Conspiracy Revealed; Walking Zombies; Bleeding Statues; Pop Culture Saints; Top 10 Mind Controlled Pop Stars; The World's Weirdest News Stories; Psychic Detectives; Norway's Mystery Lights; Chimp's Funeral.
Fortean Times FT256, December 2009 Cover Stories: The Devil Rides Out: How Dennis Wheatley sold black magic to Britain; St Therese Goes to Prison; The World's Weirdest News Stories; Balloon Boy; Twilight Zone at 50; Thoughtography; IG Nobel Prizes.
Toastmaster March 2010 Cover Stories: The Glory of the Story Lessons from storytellers; The better you write it, the better you say it; A Curmudgeon's History of the Academy Awards; Be Unforgettable!.
Fortean Times FT261, Special 2010 Cover Stories: Jesus in Britain: And did those feet...walk to Stonehenge?; Tattoos from the Blue: People branded by lightning; Very Little Green Men: Miniature UFO sightings; The Orgonite Experiment: How to super-size your vegetables; Special Section: Ghosts on Film - Were these ghosts caught on camera?; Dead Man Visits Newcastle Photographer; Phantom Sailors Haunt Ship; Arthur Conan Doyle Appears on Polaroid; The World's Weirdest News Stories; World's Oldest Animals; Haunted Afghan Outpost; Dream Machines.
Toastmaster May 2010 Cover Stories: Beauty, Poise and Speaking Skills: Miss South America; Hidtory's Most Important Speeches; Announcing the 2010 Golden Gavel recipient; How to Apologise Like a Celebrity.
Toastmaster April 2010 Cover Stories: How is Your Social Media Etiquette?; Master the Teleconference; Evolution of the TelePrompter; Lights, Camera, Action!.

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