"A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son."

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Source : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

William Graham Sumner

#Encouragement Quotes #Father Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.”

Source : "Fir Dores Fir Tzavoes" (1901). "Alle Verk," IV. 237,
“People always say, when did you realize you were funny? And I think it's not that you realize you were funny. It's that you're brain works in a certain way. And I don't think that that's - I think in some respects it's uncontrollable, and you can either accept it and deal with it and hone it or you can try to fight it. And I was too weak to fight it.”
“Religion is not removed by removing superstition.”
“And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.”
“We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.”
“As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.”
“My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species. Further than this, there should be no economic necessity of its doing so. By the time it was able to go into deep space, it must have arrived at an energy source which would not be based on planetary natural resources.”

Source : "Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak". Book by Clifford D. Simak, Introduction (p. ix), 1977.
“We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.”

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