"I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

Michael Silverblatt

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Grandma Quotes

“Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty”
“I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science.”

Source : "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.
“So the floodgates open, but nothing comes out. Iâ€™m feeling no relief in my head, just doubt. But my heart keeps telling me, 'hold your ground. Youâ€™ll never learn a thing if you bail out now.”

Source : Song: The Wrong Girl, Album: On a Clear Night, 2007
“Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.”
“I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport.”
“No one notices I'm breaking inside.”
“If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.”
“American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.”

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