"Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing, with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time."

-- Daniel Beaty

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“High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.”
“I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.”
“Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.”

Source : "Modern Ideas About Children". Book by Alfred Binet, 1909.
“The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.”
“I'm not sure how each one of us sees ourselves in the band, but we're being part of this ritual of identity where people see CafÃ© Tacvba as something Mexican, as a representation of the Mexican. The songs, the music, the energy given in a concert. Sometimes I question that there's not much decision from our part, like there's something that leads us to this. Something beyond.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.”
“I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.”

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