Quotes
Authors
Marie Winn

"The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to supervise and control their children, even when they are filled with anxiety as to their children's ability to cope with a full-fledged sexual relationship. "How can we buck the tide?" parents say helplessly, often without making quite certain that the ocean they see is a real one and not a mirage."

-- Marie Winn

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“President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: â€œThat which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.'”
“A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly”
“That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]”
“Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.”
“The account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as the manuscripts are inaccurately designated, and of the half a century of intense research that followed, is in itself a fascinating as well as an exasperating story.”

Source : "The Dead Sea Scrolls in English". Book by Geza Vermes (Introduction, p. 1), 1962.
“Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for... False Evidence Appearing Real.”
“We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives.”
“Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents â€“ sometimes â€“ but I donâ€™t believe in romantic love. Of course, thereâ€™s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but itâ€™s biology â€“ itâ€™s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette youâ€™re smoking”

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