"One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too."

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Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. September 2004.

Robert Fogel

#Son Quotes #Age Quotes #World Quotes

“The best assurance the role of minorities can be given is that they will not be viewed as minorities but as citizens.”
“Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.”
“Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.”
“It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 507), 1895.
“Security is mortal's chiefest enemy.”
“Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't be, I know I should be really regular, but I like to get it done as quickly as possible.”
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
“[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.”

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