"The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'”
“The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.”

Source : Edward Eager (1999). “Seven-Day Magic”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The strength of the script, for me, was that you're really left, right till the end, to know what's happening. This seemingly perfect, happy, kooky real relationship slowly turns into something horrifying, but you get there through a filter of reality with all of it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame”
“Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.”
“As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.”
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”

Source : 'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)
“Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.”

Source : "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1898.

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