"I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her."

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Amy Hempel

#Mother Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes #Age Quotes

“Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.”

Source : "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 188, 1974.
“If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.”

Source : Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.96, John Wiley & Sons
“Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.”
“I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.”
“I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.”

Source : William Langland (2015). “Piers Plowman”, p.59, Booklassic
“It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well.”
“Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.”
“Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.”

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