"Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers."

-- Amos Bronson Alcott

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“The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.”
“He frosted under heavy guard.”
“If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.”
“I'm a goofball and a comedian”
“The most important thing is to figure out Your goal in life. If Your intentions and methods are correct, there is no way You will not achieve it.”
“What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.”

Source : Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”
“In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

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