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If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. ↗


— John Gardner


#college #freedom #gets #give #including

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗


— Charlotte Perkins Gilman


#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. ↗


— Charles Dickens


#independence #individuality #leadership #submission #suppression

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive. ↗


— Michael Johns


#allocation #debate #debates #december #demonstrated

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it. ↗


— Humphrey Lyttelton


#double #double meaning #expression #front #got

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing. ↗


— Mariel Hemingway


#experience #explain #getting #i #i do

We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change. ↗


— Darrel Ray


#religion #change

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail. ↗


— Edouard Manet


#hail #insults #me #pouring #thick

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door. ↗


— Rosabeth Moss Kanter


#executives #losing #revolving #streak #symptoms

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗


— Thurgood Marshall


#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down






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