"Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it."

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Source : Walter Rauschenbusch (2013). “A Theology for the Social Gospel”, p.8, Ravenio Books

Walter Rauschenbusch

#Children Quotes #Trying Quotes #Generations Quotes

“I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.”
“[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.”
“To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.”
“Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, "Music and the Naughty 'Nineties", Hogarth Press edition, p. 64, 1985.
“We believe that business can be a tool for social good.”
“Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.”
“There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.”

Source : Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.243, Macmillan
“Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing.”

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