Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
Edgar Friedenberg
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
E. L. James
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
A. C. Benson
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My tastes are Viennese.
Zubin Mehta
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Movies are romantic fantasies.
Ira Sachs
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No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Lord is in control. He knows the end from the beginning. He has given us adequate instruction that, if followed, will see us safely through any crisis. His purposes will be fulfilled, and someday we will understand the eternal reasons for all of these events. Therefore, today we must be careful to not overreact, nor should we be caught up in extreme preparations, but what we must do is keep the commandments of God and never loose hope!
M. Russell Ballard
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Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.
Walt Disney
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At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.
E. B. White
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One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.
Mary Barnett Gilson
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The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
Abraham Lincoln
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
Aristotle
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I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.
Nick Carter
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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
David Lee Roth
Van Halen
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The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world.
Will Hutton
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I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.
Leslie Poles Hartley
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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
George Steiner
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Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
Edgar Friedenberg