"All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you."

-- Anne Lamott

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“The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal.... Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.”

Source : "Theory of the Immortal Social-Political Body". 1986.
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”

Source : FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jun 24, 2011
“We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.”
“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.”
“Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or 'cliometric' history-born of the marriage contracted between historical problems and advanced statistical analysis, with economic theory as bridesmaid and the computer as best man-has made tremendous advances in the last generation.”

Source : Robert William Fogel, Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (1983). “Which Road to the Past?: Two Views of History”, p.2, Yale University Press
“There are people who are very greedy, there are people who don't care. But in my opinion, that is a minority. The majority of the people on the face of this earth want peace, and if this is true, then peace on earth is a very achievable objective. People say it's not going to happen. Well, let this time belong to those who believe it can happen, not to the ones who say it cannot.”
“But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.”
“A chaste generation would restore Paradise.”

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