#ren

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#child #children #consider #deceiving #deception

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view. ↗

— John Howard

#born #coming #contribution #country #discriminatory

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. ↗

— George Canning

#asking #bottoms #cent #clap #commerce

I had already developed inherited back problems. I had degenerative disk disease, a form of scoliosis, arthritis. And I truly believe that if it weren't for the use of steroids - I'm not saying steroids is for everyone, but in my case in general, if I have not used steroids, I mean, physically right now I'd probably be a wreck. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#arthritis #back #believe #case #developed

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#community #crisis #help #opportunity #renew

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them! ↗

— Frank Capra

#film-makers #follow #start #them #trends

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. ↗

— Lois Capps

#children #defined #double #early #more

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity. ↗

— Lois Capps

#alternative #creativity #develop #efficiency #energy

If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems. ↗

— James Lileks

#parenting #age

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed. ↗

— Wendy Carlos

#dig #hadn #i #into #lifetime