"Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined."

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Source : John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1833). “The mother at home: or, The principles of maternal duty familiarly illustrated”, p.159

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

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“Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.”

Source : Harry Kalven (1989). “A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America”, HarperCollins
“I am, and remain, passionate about news.”

Source : "Valérie Trierweiler: France's femme formidable" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.
“Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.”
“As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.”

Source : "Objective: Limited", Time Magazine, December 20, 1943.
“I love my city and I feel like the majority of the people that are in the city are people from other cities. So I think that L.A. sometimes might get a bad rap because it's known to be so Hollywood-oriented and then underneath that you have crime. But that's really the case in pretty much any major city that you go to.”

Source : "Ben McKenzie, Regina King and John Wells Visit Southland". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. September 04, 2009.
“I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?”
“If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.”
“Runners...you're competitive, but you want to have fun, too. You want to enjoy life. And runners really get to do that, I think-after we recover.”

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