"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."

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Haim Ginott

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“You can stump any stoner with one question: What were we just talking about?”
“Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.”
“The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.”

Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
“The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks”
“He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?" I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly.”
“A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics
“You will not have that for which you ask, nor can you have anything you want. This is because your very request is a statement of lack, and your saying you want a thing only works to produce that precise experience - wanting - in your reality.”
“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

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