"Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world."

-- B. C. Forbes

#Children Quotes #Fate Quotes #World Quotes

“Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony”

Source : James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.12, Courier Corporation
“You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.”
“One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.”
“The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.”
“Friday morning, Kylie, Miranda, and Della, each carting suitcases, walked the trail to meet up with their parents. They walked slowly, like condemned prisoners moving to their executions. â€œIâ€™m going to be peeing on a drug test stick every hour,â€ Della muttered. Miranda sighed. â€œIâ€™m going to screw up at my competition and my mom is going to give me up for adoption.â€ â€œIâ€™m going to a ghost hunt,â€ Kylie added. Both girls looked at her. â€œDonâ€™t ask.”
“There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, â€” that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.”

Source : "The Social System - Constitution, Laws, and Regulations of a Community". Book by Robert Owen, 1826.
“In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience.Â I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you canâ€™t get a real experience from the world.”
“Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.”

Source : "Human Hopes: Addresses & Papers on Education, Citizenship, & Social Porblems".

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