"Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom."

-- Haim Ginott

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“Football is the love of my life. I would never say I don't want to play. Somebody could say that this game is meaningless. Who is it meaningless to? I guess people who are watching the game? Or the people who are playing it? It's definitely not meaningless to us.”
“Ive been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.”
“I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.”
“Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.”
“It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.”
“Emmies, for example, most of that's bullshit. Oscars are even worse. We have a strange, terrible affliction in this town. Everybody walks around bent-backed from slapping each other on the backs so much. It looks like arthritis but it isn't. It's hunger for recognition. And it's sort of like, well, I'll scratch you this time if you'll scratch me next time. That kind of thing.”

Source : Source: www.rodserling.com
“The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.”

Source : MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406
“I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holtâ€™s choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didnâ€™t come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.”

Source : "Here’s Why Hillary Clinton Emails Didn’t Get Much Attention Last Night" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 27, 2016.

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