Ina May Gaskin Quotes
When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.
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Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
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I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
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Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
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When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.
