“It is a waste of money to pay priests to frighten our children, and paralyze the intellect of women.”
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
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“Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.”
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"Parental Guidance".
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On the U.S. Apollo program, press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil (November 1968) as quoted in The Reality of Monarchy (1970) by Andrew Duncan
1960s
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 11.
Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician
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“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
“[W]aste in intellect may be as much an incident of growth as waste in nature.”
John Tyndall (1820–1893) British scientist
p, 125
New Fragments (1892)
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde