"When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come."

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Source : Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Perspectives of world history”

Oswald Spengler

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.”

Source : Rick Steves (2015). “Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook”, p.973, Avalon Travel
“The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. I speak like my mom. I speak like the whitest white dude. I speak like a "Def Comedy Jam" comedian doing an impression of a white guy.”
“And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one.”
“For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.”
“All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon its perfection of Balance. All of man's ills are caused by toxic poisons generated in his body through unbalance affecting his power of control over the functions of his electric body. Man, as an extension of God, is creator of his own electric body. He is master of his electric body to the extent of his knowing the Light of God in him. ... God says to man: Â»What I do, ye shall doÂ«, but man is unbelieving for long ages.”
“You cannot prepare enough for anything.”
“No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.”
“Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.”

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