"Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life."

-- Pearl S. Buck

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“I'm inspired by strong, courageous women. My mother is the definition of a self-sufficient, independent woman whom I have always looked up to. I also greatly admire incredible women like Aung San Suu Kyi, and human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 4 years in Iran, simply for giving a voice to the voiceless and defending the helpless. And I'm in awe of the young Pakistani student and activist, Malala Yousafzai, for her bravery and resilience in the face of brutal repression.”
“Money is just a symbol we use to facilitate te gathering of memories and experiences.”
“I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.”
“We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.”
“Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.”

Source : "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.
“The Droid I had actually seemed to have free will, which I thought was interesting.”
“It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.”

Source : "Tatler Editor Kate Reardon defends speech to school girls on politeness and good grades" by Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. July 10, 2014.
“For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.”

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