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Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship. ↗

— Juan Gelman

#the-little-prince #words #beauty

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#child #clothes #developed #eight #even

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#parents #people #point #still #who

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#just #justice #parents #quiet #really

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.' ↗

— Bill Cosby

#acting #body #dead #every #fool

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#faith #lost #you #your

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#authorities #authority #because #certainly #had

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#civilization #did #had #i #many

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ↗