"What society does to its children, so..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.
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“Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.”
“The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul”
“There is no place more delightful than home.”
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“Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.”
“Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.”
“If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”
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“We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .”
“Keep at least one window pane clean to check the weather. Once when I didn't do this I sent the kids off with umbrellas for six weeks straight.”
“Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children”