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When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. when a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. when an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. when an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
-Haim Ginott
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When A Child Hits A Child, We

Haim Ginott
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. when a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. when an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. when an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
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At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.
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It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...when you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. the enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.
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To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. to be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. in other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. the type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what i call balancing.
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Most of the time, when i had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with simon & garfunkel - i was surprised they were hits. i didn't know what the hits were. i never thought that 'loves me like a rock' was going to be a hit, or 'mother and child reunion,' or '50 ways to leave your lover.' they didn't sound like what the hits sounded like at the time. radio was more open to things that weren't exactly what every other hit was.
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What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. it is discipline. discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. we are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. we can't even keep from snacking between meals. we are not built for discipline. we are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. discipline is something we have to work at.
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