"Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength...."

-- Ezra Taft Benson

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“A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.”
“Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.”
“Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.”
“Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to engage your audience.”

Source : Carmine Gallo (2010). “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience”, McGraw Hill Professional
“Practice random acts of . . . Grumpiness.”
“Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: Thatâ€™s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing whatâ€™s going on.”
“I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.”

Source : Charles Hanson Towne (1908). “The Quiet Singer: And Other Poems”
“... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.”

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