"In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones."

-- Delia Ephron

#Nature Quotes #Children Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!”
“We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.”

Source : Sharif M. Abdullah (1999). “Creating a World That Works for All”, p.209, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.”
“My childhood memories reside somewhere in my subconscious part of my brain. Somehow I feel that my subconscious part creates far more interesting things than my conscious part can ever dream of.”

Source : Source: run-riot.com
“Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.”

Source : Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.14
“I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.”
“Sister, they send you out for one and you bring back two... and a half. Such a clever girl.”
“How strange that excision â€“ female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation â€“ of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys. Consensus on the point seems absolute. But ask your interlocutor to think about the validity of this surgical procedure, which consists of removing a healthy part of a nonconsenting childâ€™s body on nonmedical grounds â€“ the legal definition ofâ€¦ mutilation.”

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