"If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else."

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John Gresham Machen

#Education Quotes #Children Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.”
“It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”
“Victim fall in love with excuses”
“They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”
“To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.”
“Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.”

Source : Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.97, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old.”
“I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.”

Source : Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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