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Mary Calderone Quote

“Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.”

— Mary Calderone

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Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

— Mary Calderone

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I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

— Mary Calderone

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Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.

— Alexander Maclaren

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Man is not altogether an imbecile. True, "circumstances do make the man." But they make him only in the sense and degree that he permits them to make him.

— G. D. Boardman

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What we do upon a great occasion will probably depend upon what we already are; what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline, under the grace of Christ or the absence of it.

— H. P. Liddon

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Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

— Emmons

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