"... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do."

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Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

Peg Bracken

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Way Quotes

“Survival has its own etiquette.”
“For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.”

Source : Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.87, Crown Forum
“[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.”
“In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.”
“No-one is born with perfect eyebrow.”
“The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the â€˜Year of the Poor.â€™ I hope that this prophetic summons will challenge everyone, at all levels of society, to reject every form of corruption which diverts resources from the poor, and to make concerted efforts to ensure the inclusion of every man and woman and child in the life of the community.”
“However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.”
“The AMA virtually stopped the Rife treatment in 1939, first by threatening the physicians using Rife's instrument, then by forcing Rife into court....During the period 1935 to early 1939, the leading laboratory for electronic or energy medicine in the USA, in New Jersy, was independently verifying Rife's discoveries...(this) laboratory was "mysteriously" burned to the ground.....Rife's treatment was ruthlessly suppressed by the AMA's Morris Fishbein.”

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