"Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children."

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Source : 1886 The Son of a Servant.

August Strindberg

#Wisdom Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is nothing taken away from it and crime is very low and all that.”
“When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.”

Source : "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.
“For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.”
“The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.”
“If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.”
“The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.”
“There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.”
“Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.”

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