Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

A.S. Neill in Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing (1960)
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The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

A.S. Neill in Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing (1960)
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I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.

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Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

A.S. Neill in Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing (1960)
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