"Deprivation is the mother of poetry."

-- Leonard Cohen

#Mother Quotes #Deprivation Quotes

“Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.”
“Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.”

Source : "Former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. February 6, 2012.
“Very often, we are confronted by people who want us to pray their way or colleagues who want us to think their way. We must remember to maintain our individual relationship with God. We have the shining light of Soul, and because we have it, we also have the wisdom of God.”
“The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.”

Source : Frank Smith (1986). “Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classrooms”, Heinemann Educational Books
“We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.”
“A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.”
“Mortgage is one of the most popular deductions. It costs the Treasury about $103 billion a year. Now that's money we could use to treat wounded veterans or reduce the deficit or fill the border. Instead, we give it a subsidy to homeowners, and it goes mainly to the richest homeowners in America, because only one third of Americans itemize their deductions. It doesn't work. Many countries have gotten rid of the mortgage interest deduction. Almost all of them have higher homeownership rates than we do.”
“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”

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