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If you tell children that they ought to be affectionate, you run the risk of producing cant and humbug. But if you make them happy and free, if you surround them with kindness, you will find that they become spontaneously friendly with everybody, and that almost everybody responds by being friendly with them. A trustful affectionate disposition justifies itself, because it gives irresistible charm, and creates the response which it expects. This is one of the most important results to be expected from the right education of character.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 11 “Affection and Sympathy” (1926)

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A quotation from Josh Billings

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-03 “Housekeer’s Guide” (1871 ed.)

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Billings, Josh - Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1871-03 "Housekeer's Guide" (1871 ed.) | WIST Quotations

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 19

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as an example, and our every really good or bad action inspires a similar one.

[Rien n’est si contagieux que l’exemple, et nous ne faisons jamais de grands biens ni de grands maux qui n’en produisent de semblables.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶230 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

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Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶230 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)] - La Rochefoucauld, Francois | WIST Quotations

Nothing is so contagious as an example, and our every really good or bad action inspires a similar one. [Rien n’est si contagieux que l’exemple, et nous ne faisons jamais de grands biens ni de grands maux qui n’en produisent de semblables.] In the manuscript and 1665 ed., this concluded…

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Dave Volek Dec 4

Be the Example You Want our Politicians to Be

Building a kinder, wiser democracy will show the world how to do it:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=27&id=273

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#goodexample

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 4, 2025

A quotation from Joseph Joubert

Children have more need of models than of critics.

[Les enfants ont plus besoin de modèles que de critiques.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 19 “De l’Éducation [On Education],” ¶ 3 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866), ch. 14]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/2189/

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WIST Quotations moves again!Apr 4, 2024

A quotation from Billings, Josh:

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What the world wants iz good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

[What the world wants is good examples, not so much advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.]
»

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https://wist.info/billings-josh/34894/

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Everybody's Friend, Or; Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 130 "Affurisms: Puddin & Milk" (1874) - Billings, Josh | WIST Quotations

What the world wants iz good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves. [What the world wants is good examples, not so much advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.]

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Now -> [email protected]Aug 25, 2023

🚨 #PSA for #London #UK Peeps!

One of my fav #museums, the #WellcomeCollection is currently having an #exhibition on #Milk, & on Sept 2nd, will have a 'Relaxed Opening' (more even lighting, less lighting, less sounds, etc.)

They will also provide #SensoryOverload aids such as ear defenders, tinted glasses/visors, etc.

Specific *detailed* info is here:
https://twitter.com/ExploreWellcome/status/1695003730108879053

Website: https://wellcomecollection.org/events/ZCQXaRQAANdrSNRK

If you ever get the chance, DO visit!

#Autism #Autistic #Accessibility #GoodExample

Wellcome Collection on X

To our neurodivergent friends, we would like to tell you about our latest exhibition, Milk. This Twitter thread will explain the main themes of the exhibition and what to expect if you visit during our Relaxed Opening on the 2 September. 🧵

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CyberWolf⚡🌈🤠🐺Mar 1, 2023

#GretaThunberg has grown into someone who can put her money where her mouth is. I can't say anything about her cause (I don't know) but she shows more heart and fire than most. We who protest in other areas need to take note.

#Protest #GoodExample

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Greta Thunberg Detained by Norway Police During Pro-Sami Protest

OSLO (Reuters) -Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg was twice detained during a demonstration in support of Indigenous rights in Oslo on Wednesday, with police removing her and...

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JC Palmer Feb 14, 2023

“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.

You could have said of him (as they say of Socrates) that he knew how to enjoy and abstain from things most people find it hard to abstain from and all too easy to enjoy. Strength, perseverance, self-control in both areas: the mark of a soul in readiness — indomitable.”

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Debts and Lessons, Antoninus), 1.16

#stoicism #philosophy #goodexample

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Ben Moore Nov 30, 2022

We try to encourage our eight year old to be an exploratory eater. Tonight my spouse asked what he was making us for dinner and he said he’d make me a peanut butter and cheese (Swiss) sandwich. And now I get to be an exploratory eater! Turns out it’s pretty good! #CrazyFoodCombo #GoodExample #TryNewThings