"If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or legislation; but by fathers and mothers exerting a moral influence and example in their own families, tempered with love and understanding."

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Source : J. Spencer Kinard (1976). “The worth of a smile: spoken words for daily living”, Prentice Hall

J. Spencer Kinard

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Home Quotes

“Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.”

Source : Robert Liparulo (2009). “House of Dark Shadows”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc
“It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.”

Source : Herbert Harold Read (1957). “The Granite Controversy: Geological Addresses Illustrating the Evolution of a Disputant”, London, Murby
“[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting?”
“The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people who believe essentially we've already lost in Iraq and it's time to get out - and most of the rest of us who believe not only have we not lost, but we're winning.”
“I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.”
“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.”
“To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we've done something with it and created real value.”
“Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones.”

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