"How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did."

-- Robert D. Putnam

#Parent Quotes #Wells Quotes

“You can refer to god and you are really just talking about nature. If you are going to say the universe is god, then everything is god, everything is religion. But when we explore traditional religion we are talking about humanistic gods people pray to, that they think can intervene in their lives, who run sort of a heaven-and-hell operation for the afterworld.”
“Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.”
“I really liked German food. And it's very clean.. It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well.. the garbage.”
“With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong.”
“Everyone had a forever.”
“A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.”
“For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.”

Source : "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (American Empire Project)". Book by Andrew Bacevich, 2008.
“Keep your head up because one day one person will fight like hell for you, the same as you would for them, and it will be a deep love. So keep your head up.”

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