“We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.”
“We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment”
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The Tree That Fell To The West: Autobiography of a Sufi (2003)
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Context: We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now. And the only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down.
“We're like children who always want to take apart watches to see how they work.”
As quoted by Freeman Dyson, "Seeing the Unseen," New York Review of Books (Feb. 24, 2005), quoting Rutherford in the London Daily Herald
About the LGBT community in an interview with Israel Hayom http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=38063 (November 17, 2016)
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 246.
“Who doesn't have big hopes can't be disappointed.”
Quien no alberga grandes esperanzas no puede resultar decepcionado.
Patricia Conde's Fotolog http://www.fotolog.com/ohadri/21499931#, quoted from a magazine Ayer tuve un sueño (22 April 2010)
Letter to Harriot Hunt (1853), as quoted in The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition, p. 241, by Gerda Lerner. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0195106032.