"A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance."

-- David Blankenhorn

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“Ontario’s colleges and universities offer our young people life-changing opportunities. With an education, you can go anywhere and do anything. I am so impressed with the way our postsecondary students are engaging in their communities, and I am inspired by their hope and optimism. They are not the leaders of tomorrow – they are leaders today.”
“Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.122, Metropolitan Books
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
“Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.”

Source : "PW Talks with Susan Wiggs". Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

Source : Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers
“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.”

Source : John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group
“The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.”

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