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“A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are gone; attend to those things, which you think are important. You may adopt all policies you please, but how they are carried out depends on him. He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. All your books are going to be judged, praised or condemned by him. The fate of humanity is in his hands. So it might be well to pay him some attention.”
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The origins of this quote are unknown. At least two sources can be traced back, but these sources date back to the 1940 years; long time after Lincon's death.
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He is a person who is going to carry on what you have started.
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He is to sit right where you are sitting and attend when you are gone to those things you think are so important.
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You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they will be carried out depends on him.
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Even if you make leagues and treaties, he will have to manage them.
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He is going to sit at your desk in the Senate, and occupy your place on the Supreme Bench.
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He will assume control of your cities, states and nations.
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He is going to move in and take over your prisons, churches, schools, universities and corporations.
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All your work is going to be judged and praised or condemned by him.
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Your reputation and your future are in his hands.
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All you work is for him, and the fate of the nations and of humanity is in his hands.Quotes about life
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So it might be well to pay him some attention.
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"He is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. His is to sit right where you are sitting and attend when you are gone to those things you think are so important. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they will be carried on depends on him. Even if you make leagues and treaties, he will have to manage them. He is going to sit at your desk in the Senate, and occupy your place on the Supreme Bench. He is going to move in and take over your prisons, churches, schools, universities and corporations. When you get done, all your work is going to be judged and praised or condemned by him.
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"Your reputation and your future are in his hands. He will assume controll of your cities. Right now the future President is playing marbles. Not your contemporaries and your citizens, but the boys out there in the school yard, are going to say whether after all you were a grand and noble hero or a biatherskite. ... All you work is for him and the fate of the nations and of humanity is in his hands. So it might be well to pay him some attention".

 

Abraham Lincoln

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There was autocracy in political life, and it was superseded by democracy. So surely will democratic power wrest from you the control of industry. The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not now show that you have some humanity still among you. Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. Be warned ere it is too late.

 

George William Russell

 

He commenced a systematic search of the cabin; but his attention was soon riveted by the books which seemed to exert a strange and powerful influence over him, so that he could scarce attend to aught else for the lure of the wondrous puzzle which their purpose presented to him.
Among the other books were a primer, some child's readers, numerous picture books, and a great dictionary. All of these he examined, but the pictures caught his fancy most, though the strange little bugs which covered the pages where there were no pictures excited his wonder and deepest thought.

 

Edgar Rice Burroughs

 

In general they are intoxicated by the fame of mass culture, a fame which the latter knows how to manipulate; they could just as well get together in clubs for worshipping film stars or for collecting autographs. What is important to them is the sense of belonging as such, identification, without paying particular attention to its content. As girls, they have trained themselves to faint upon hearing the voice of a 'crooner'. Their applause, cued in by a light-signal, is transmitted directly on the popular radio programmes they are permitted to attend. They call themselves 'jitter-bugs', bugs which carry out reflex movements, performers of their own ecstasy. Merely to be carried away by anything at all, to have something of their own, compensates for their impoverished and barren existence. The gesture of adolescence, which raves for this or that on one day with the ever-present possibility of damning it as idiocy on the next, is now socialized.

 

Theodor Adorno

 

There are the states of inattention and of attention. When you are completely giving your mind, your heart, your nerves, everything you have, to attend, then the old habits, the mechanical responses, do not enter into it, thought does not come into it at all. But we cannot maintain that all the time, so we are mostly in a state of inattention, a state in there is not an alert choiceless awareness. What takes place? There is inattention and rare attention and we are trying to bridge the one to the other. How can my inattention become attention or, can attention be complete, all the time?

 

Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations— he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.

 

Noam Chomsky