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Good
parents used to introduce their children into the
broader culture; now they try to protect their
children from the broader culture. Good parents used
to instill the values of the broader culture: now
they try to teach their children values very
different from the ones the world at large teaches.
- Mary Pipher, The Shelter of Each Other
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For if a man is going to
be overpowered by a man, he must long before be
overpowered by things.
- Epictetus, DISCOURSES, Book 3
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No fault divorce
reinforces a view of marriage as an individualistic
arrangement whose sole purpose is to produce
happiness. Second, it makes marriage riskier for any
spouse who doesn't want a divorce. Finally, no-faulth
divorce makes a traditional roles in marriage; such
as childbearing and childrearing, riskier.
- Steven Nook, Prof. of Sociology
U. of Virginia op-ed S-R 11/13/99
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The thing to be
remembered is that this cheapened and multiplied
access to amusement is the product of the machine
age, intensified by the business tradition which
causes provision of means for an enjoyable passing
of time to be one of the most profitable of
occupations.
- John Dewey
The Public And Its Problems (1927)
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Children today are
tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their
food, and tyrannize their teachers
~ Socrates
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If the mind were simple
enough to understand, we'd be too simple to
understand it.
~ Emerson Pugh
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