family

"We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so."

"Do not consider either the security of your personal lives or the transitory happiness of your wives, husbands, children, parents and relatives; for the security of all of your children and their chil…"

"I may as well say at once that I do not distinguish between inference and deduction. What is called induction appears to me to be either disguised deduction or a mere method of making plausible guesse…"

"If we had more land, we could provide space to non-profit organisations to offer more elderly home services … the elderly and their children could afford a better service."

"If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject."

"Dave played lap steel, a little guitar, keys and did a lot of drinking."

"So here was this orb looking like a Christmas tree ornament, very fragile, not expanse granite … a physical insignificance and yet it was our home…"

"To bear children into this world is like carrying wood into a burning house."

"In 1918 Hitler was in a military hospital blinded from a British poison gas attack. He was just a corporal, he had no family, a limited education, no friends, no connections, no political status, noth…"

"Chess Queen", by Paul Hoffman, Smithsonian Magazine"

"There are few families in the history of nations which have... produced as many outstanding personalities as the House of Hohenzollern.... And though the last bearer of the crown is gauged by doubtful…"

"But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can.…"

"South San Francisco The Industrial City is ugly as sin but somebody lives there: Allison, in fact."

"He went out of the office into the darkness of the long corridor and walked heavily into the sunlight, into the open world that was like a prison wherever he turned."

"Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have…"

"Karl Marx was born at Trier on 5 May 1818, the child of Jewish parents with a long rabbinical tradition on both sides. His grandfathers were rabbis; his father, a well-to-do lawyer, changed his first …"

"Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrot…"

"Official Dino Merlin homepage"

"While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself."

"It was not for me to convert Lukas, but I gave him some corrected information; for instance...that Zoroaster, Lao Tse, Plato, Xenophon, Pythagoras, Albertus Magnus, Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy, Noval…"