"American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate."

-- Faye Wattleton

#Children Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Teens Quotes

“Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.”
“Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'”
“People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets.”
“I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.”
“Itâ€™s just â€¦ everything. There are too many people. And I donâ€™t fit in. I donâ€™t know how to be. Nothing that Iâ€™m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesnâ€™t matterâ€”and being good with words. And when those things do matter, itâ€™s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.”
“Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty.”
“We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.26, Open Road Media
“The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears, with flowers and with enthusiastic hospitality. What can have brought them to the point at which they would greet even Hitler as their saviour and liberator?”

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