Phil Borges quotes

Phil Borges quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity.”
-- Phil Borges

#Motivation Quotes #Children Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.”
“Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."”
“Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.”
“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
“I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.”
“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”
“A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.”
“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”
“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.”
“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”

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