"Peace on earth, good will to men From Heaven's all - gracious King"

-- Dobie Gray

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“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.”
“Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.”

Source : Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.25, Basic Books
“The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1847). “Notes from Life, in six essays”, p.12
“We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.”
“By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.”
“From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.”
“The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.”
“Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.”

Source : Naomi Klein (2010). “No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Vintage Canada

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