"Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better."

--

Kay Redfield Jamison

“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”
“I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.”
“Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart”
“Support the ones you love when it is their moment to risk.”
“It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.”

Source : Tim Hansel (1989). “What Kids Need Most in a Dad”, Fleming H Revell Company
“In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.”
“Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.”
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books

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