"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms."

-- Barry Commoner

#Children Quotes #Economic Quotes #Child Labor Quotes

“I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.”

Source : "Azealia Banks has a crush on Barack Obama and would 'tone it down' for the right man" by Alistair McGeorge, www.mirror.co.uk. April 3, 2015.
“[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.”

Source : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.24, Templeton Foundation Press
“Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.”
“However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.”
“He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.”
“All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.”
“I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.”
“There's a light, I still see it There's a hand still holding me Even when I don't believe it”

Source : Song: Hope In Front Of Me, Album: Hope in Front of Me, 2014

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