"It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot."

-- Robert Walpole

#Demand Quotes #Patriot Quotes #Unreasonable Quotes

“One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.”
“There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.”
“Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.”
“And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.”
“The postwar WWII GI Bill of Rights-and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans-signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.”
“I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.”
“I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

Source : Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.80

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