"With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!"

-- Jane Addams

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.”
“Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.”
“I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.”
“I started acting professionally at age 19.”
“Memories fade but words hang around forever.”

Source : Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.”
“People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is Michael [Jordan's] competitive spirit. I'm different. I enjoy building. I enjoy the process of putting the puzzle together, and then the byproduct of that, the consequence of that, is beating somebody. That becomes the cherry on top, the icing on the cake.”
“Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.”

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