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“Work elevates, idleness degrades.”
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“Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”
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“Women without children are also the best of mothers, often, with the patience, interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A child is fortunate who feels witnessed as a person, outside relationships with parents, by another adult.”
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“We find what we search for — or, if we don't find it, we become it.”
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“Grandma ... had a great deal to do with the education of her granddaughters. In general she not so much trained as just shed herself upon us.”
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“What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?”
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“... she still somehow must get money; what other goal was there?”
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“Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other ...”