"Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture."

-- Amos Bronson Alcott

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“Michael Jordan is sort of...the hip-hop version of Dr. J”
“You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.”
“Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.”

Source : "'My hands are frozen and my heart races': Andrea Bocelli says crippling stage fright is like an incurable disease" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. February 8, 2013.
“Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was the opiate of the masses. Raymond Aron retorted that Marxist ideas were in turn the opiate of the intellectuals. There is perspicacity in both these polemical thrusts. But is perspicacity truth? I wish to suggest that perhaps truth has been the real opiate, of both the masses and the intellectuals.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.81, Verso
“I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.”
“It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. â€œI would never have that horrible old couch in my room,â€ you say. But your own old couch is every bit as bad and you are not disgusted with its appearance; it is your friend, you see, and you remember it when it was new and smart. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.”
“My opinion of Christian Zionists? They're scum. But don't tell them that. We need all the useful idiots we can get right now.”
“Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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