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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
- Barbara Kingsolver
Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate.
- Barbara Kingsolver
He got born in the historical moment of no more free lunch. Friends will probably count more than money, because wanting too much stuff is going to be toxic.
- Barbara Kingsolver
What I'm saying is nobody feels sorry for anybody anymore, nobody even pretends they do. Not even the President. It's like it's become unpatriotic.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.
- Barbara Kingsolver
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
- Stephen Covey
Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
- Stephen Covey
As we continue to grow and mature, we become increasingly aware that all of nature is interdependent, that there is an ecological system that governs nature, including society. We further discover that the higher reaches of our nature have to do with our relationships
- Stephen Covey
And if I do this, day after day my behavior will change. Instead of living out of the scripts given to me by my own parents or by society or by genetics or my environment, I will be living out of the script I have written from my own self-selected value system.
- Stephen Covey
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
- Maya Angelou
It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
- Abraham Lincoln