"Now is the age of anxiety."

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W. H. Auden

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“Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”
“Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
“I have to be seen to be believed.”

Source : "Like a storybook character come to life: why the Queen is a style icon" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2015.
“When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation.”
“I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.”
“If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.141, Octagon Press Ltd
“But what is now encompassed by the one word (â€œschoolâ€) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nationâ€™s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books
“It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.”

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