"We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous."

-- David Suzuki

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“Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.”

Source : Hal Rothman, Virgil Hancock (2003). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century”, p.322, Psychology Press
“Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.”
“All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.”
“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
“It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.”

Source : "Carlos Slim: The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of". abcnews.go.com. October 8, 2007.
“Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.”
“Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?”
“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.”

Source : The Times, September 8, 1977.

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