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There Was A Time When We Expected Nothing Of Our Children But Obedience, As Opposed To The Present, When We Expect Everything Of Them But Obedience.
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but
obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them
but obedience.
-- Anatole Broyard
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All Lord Julius demands is total and complete obedience and more money every time we pay him.
He's being quite reasonable, really..." -- Cerebu...
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
-- Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923...
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time.
But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own....
Should we tell the children when we move?
Why do we expect our Presidents to control destiny when they cannot even control the House of Representatives?
-- Russell Bake...
and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
We never make assertions, Miss Taggart, that is the moral crime peculiar to our enemies.
We do not tell, we show. We do not claim, we prove....
How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air....
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
-- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard...