Quotation Matches:
Children
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Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.
 -Louis Kaplan
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Democracy
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It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.
-Lyndon B. Johnson, Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure a long, inconclusive war, address at San Antonio, Texas, September 29, 1967
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