“We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?”
— Ellen Goodman
Author: Ellen Goodman
Category: parenting
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“We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.”
— Malcolm Turnbull
Author: Malcolm Turnbull
Category: hope
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“We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.”
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Category: fear
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“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.”
— Simon Wiesenthal
Author: Simon Wiesenthal
Category: home
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