"If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools."

-- Saul Bellow

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“In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.”
“Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us. Believe in the Power of One”
“When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.”
“Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.”

Source : "Mourn, and take action on guns" by Ethan Zuckerman, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2012.
“It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.”
“The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”
“Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.”
“Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.”

Source : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.127, Rodale

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