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“While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.”
― Yesterday's People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia
― Yesterday's People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia
“He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic," he said with a sour smile, and lifted his coffee cup to his lips slowly, and put it down very quickly. He had put salt in it.”
― The Innocence of Father Brown
― The Innocence of Father Brown
“I call it Dewey’s rule, and it stands for the idea that parents should try to arrange things so that, on average, their children end up in the 30th percentile of stuff.”
― The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
― The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
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