“From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.”
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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
