"in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume."

-- Margaret Halsey

#Daughter Quotes #People Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“If you want to direct, you've got to work.”
“How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.”
“Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium...”

Source : George Antheil (1945). “Bad boy of music”
“It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.”
“Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"Craig Venter - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins", www.youtube.com. June 30, 2009.
“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.”
“All I ask is one thing, and Iâ€™m asking this particularly of young people: please donâ€™t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, itâ€™s my least favorite quality and it doesnâ€™t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and youâ€™re kind, amazing things will happen.”
“One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc

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