"Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day."

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Source : Orson Squire Fowler (1851). “Memory and Intellectual Improvement: Applied to Self-education and Juvenile Instruction”, p.115

Orson Squire Fowler

#Family Quotes #Real Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.”
“Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.”
“The atonement of Jesus Christ is the supreme act of love, the supreme example of selfless concern for others.”
“Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.”

Source : Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
“So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece [George Michael: I can't make you love me].”

Source : Nicola Sturgeon @NicolaSturgeon, twitter.com. December 25, 2016.
“They're always going, don't deal with terrorists. Let's deal with them. What's Allah offering you boys, 100 virgins? We'll give you 50 slags.”
“The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.”
“Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally , every day, very faithfully.”

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