“ One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life. ”
- Henry L. Stimson- Copy
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“ Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on. ”
- James F. Bell- Copy
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“ Honor begets honor, trust begets trust, faith begets faith, and hope is the mainspring of life. ”
- Henry L. Stimson- Copy
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“ Honor begets honor, trust begets trust, faith begets faith, and hope is the mainspring of life. ”
- Henry Lewis Stimson- Copy
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“ With him for a sire, and her for a dam What should I be, but just what I am? ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
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“ The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children. ”
- Oriana Fallaci- Copy
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“ The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion… ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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