"Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build."

-- Harry Allen Overstreet

#People Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.”
“The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.”

Source : Timothy Radcliffe (2005). “Seven Last Words”, p.91, A&C Black
“With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.”
“If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a demographic cloud hangs over China. It may be the first country to grow old before it grows rich. ... Its fertility rate is below two and its working-age population will start to decline around 2015.”
“all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful”
“The living will envy the dead.”
“The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.”
“Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.”

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