"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."

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Source : Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

Bruno Bettelheim

#Inspirational Quotes #Children Quotes #Stories Quotes

“My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.”

Source : Gwen Cooper (2010). “Homer's Odyssey”, p.15, Random House
“It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.”
“Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.”
“You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.”
“I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interaction of personalities and ideas. And so I don't believe war between the U.S. and China is in any way inevitable, and it's well within the province of diplomacy and statecraft to avoid it.”

Source : "Trump's No Isolationist. Is That a Good Thing?". Interview With Tobin Harshaw, www.bloomberg.com. January 13, 2018.
“No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.”
“War is an admission of failure”

Source : K. J. Parker (2010). “The Folding Knife”, p.94, Hachette UK
“That particular octopus committed suicide, didn't he? He stabbed himself with his own beak.”

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