#dr

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#connected #dreams #importance #more #our

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#become #business #ceased #dreams #everybody

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#bottom #children #crazy #distinction #egos

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#dealt #drop #give #handed #less

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#available #capacities #children #encouraged #equipped

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#cinema #coincide #conclude #crime #drop

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#become #children #context #effects #games

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. ↗

— Norman Macleod

#cannot #character #character development #children #complex

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#clean #clean up #dirty #drive #everything

I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#children #choices #guide #i #just