"Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them."

-- Nora Ephron

#Children Quotes #Obligation Quotes #Understood Quotes

“They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I find it's often in huge tits, too.”
“I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.”
“There is no evil that the fatherâ€™s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.”
“When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.”
“I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.”
“We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.”

Source : Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press
“When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.”
“Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.”

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