#heir

One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it. ↗

— Faith Ford

#chores #could #feed #i #i think

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one. ↗

— Anatole France

#against #believers #certain #constructing #degree

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#factors #human #human societies #independent #innovation

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. ↗

— Anatole France

#abstention #bring #disappear #every #men

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.' ↗

— Genie Francis

#atlantic #be kind #because #being #britney

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ↗

— Anne Frank

#character #final #forming #give #good

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ↗

— Anne Frank

#after #character #children #daddy #final

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear. ↗

— Barney Frank

#activists #concerned #facts #get #give

Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#become #deathly #democrats #dull #easily

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#best #best work #create #creative #creative people