"Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices."

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Source : George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.122

George Berkeley

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“The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.”
“For Frito-Lay!" - Newel and Doren”
“We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.”
“This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.”

Source : Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.5, 谷月社
“These are people who wanted to provide for their family and wanted a better life. We've got to have a secure border. But we've also, we've got to act compassionately and recognize labor markets as well. ... I've never thought that it's [path to citizenship] a bad thing. If somebody is going to be here for 20, 30 years, to give them some skin in the game, if you will, to hold out the prospect of citizenship.”

Source : "Jeff Flake: Marco Rubio key on immigration". www.politico.com.
“If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.”
“Rather than beautifying oneâ€™s own creation, make better the environment that surrounds it.”
“You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.”

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