The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller,… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
I taught school in the early days of my manhood and I think I know something about mothers. There is a thread… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The North Korean Communists are implacably pursuing their military buildup in defiance of the international trend toward rapprochement and of the stark… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism,… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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