"Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding."

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Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.28, Transaction Publishers

Abraham Kaplan

#Children Quotes #Humorous Quotes #Parenting Quotes

“Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.”
“It's sort of like a reminder [click my teeth together] to remember it, but I don't think it works. I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.”
“Capitalists control the machineries. They create difficulties to the workers. Consequently rationalism , which has to lead the way for peaceful life to all, has resulted in causing poverty and worries to the people because of dominating forces”

Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 511, 2005.
“What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.”
“From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.”
“I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack.”
“The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.”
“My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.”

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