#regarding

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. ↗

— John le Carre

#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#best #course #either #empower #false

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#even #example #family #family life #good

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#complex #constitute #ethnic #general #information

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#beings #disregarding #explicitly #extent #ground

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#articulate #child #expresses #hears #individual

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#came #earth #fact #important #important fact

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#attitudes #crime #curriculum #defense #family