"A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless did not become pregnant at thirteen . . . and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike. . . . It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies."

-- Marie Winn

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“Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.”
“I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.”

Source : "Alan Simpson Fires Off Angry Letter To HuffPost" By Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2012.
“When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.”
“A picture is like a prayer.”
“Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests.”
“For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.”
“Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”

Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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