"The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother."

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Dorothy Fields

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“The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness.”
“Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.”
“I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.”
“History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.”

Source : Song: Beyond Belief, Album: Imperial Bedroom, 1982
“To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality”
“Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.”
“Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.54, Atlantic Monthly Press
“Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.”

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Reprints of Addresses”

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