"The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than to correct by penal statutes the ill effects of a bad system. ... The education of youth ... lays the foundations on which both law and gospel rest for success."

-- Noah Webster

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“For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.”
“The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.”
“I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.”

Source : "Steve Earle, Folk Hero" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”

Source : Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books
“The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.”

Source : Acid Drops preface (1980)
“I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.”
“I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing home with dementia at the end of his life, but it happened for me personally 10 years ago. My father was much older than my mother, so I experienced it as a pretty young person. People's parents die at various ages, but my father died of mortality. He died of being an old person. Illness and stuff happened, but essentially, he was old and he was going to die.”
“I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.”

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