"Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Children Quotes #Singing Quotes #Good Enough Quotes

“When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.”
“I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.”

Source : Ace Frehley (2011). “No Regrets”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.”
“Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.”
“What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?”
“I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.”
“Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.”
“The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations--there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole.--an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself--is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.”

Source : Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1843). “History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, Etc”, p.341

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