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~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or_x000D__x000D_ burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in_x000D__x000D_ silence, what wonder and expectation there would be_x000D__x000D_ in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse_x000D__x000D_people would marry for good.

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect_x000D__x000D_the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? _x000D_Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.

I love love_x000D__x000D_I love being in love_x000D__x000D_I don't care what it does to me_x000D__x000D_The Format, in "Inches and Failing"._x000D__x000D_Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs _x000D__x000D_of those who would be affected by it

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.