"... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother."

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Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.20, ETT Imprint

Miles Franklin

#Mother Quotes #Age Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.”

Source : Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”
“I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.”
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.”
“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”

Source : Dallas Willard, Jan Johnson (2015). “Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.307, InterVarsity Press
“I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.”
“One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.”
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
“Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.”

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