"I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise."

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Wilkie Collins

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“I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.”
“What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.”
“'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.”

Source : "Dirty Pretty Thing: Taylor Momsen". Interview With Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2010.
“How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .”
“When I flew from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1960, I sat next to a guy from Disney who was paying 75Â¢ an acre for land. I thought he was some special kind of fool - and since they built the park, history has proven there was a fool sitting in one of our seats.”
“You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.”
“It’s the same as always. He doesn’t pursue those who leave, and ignores those who come.”

Source : "Fictional character: Kagura". Anime series "Gin Tama" (Episode 2: "You guys!! Do you even have a silver soul?" (Pilot), 2006), (2005 - ).
“The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.”

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