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• Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not have to join the work force at an early age. This produced something unique in history: Childhood, a time when the young could experience the innocence of play and opportunity of schooling before entering the world of work.

  Richard Ebeling

  Opportunity, Unique, Play

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• When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

  Bill Moyers

  Couple, Blind, Theology

  "On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don)" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2005.

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• Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Children, Years, Advice

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• There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancestors would have been unlikely to survive, reproduce, and give their own offspring a chance of doing the same. Now conditions have changed and for most of us, surviving and reproducing isn't such a struggle but we still carry the genes of our ancestors and they influence - not determine, but influence - our behavior.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Struggle, Giving

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Daughter, Nike, Sneakers

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I do believe that there is something at the core of protecting your offspring - the love of a mother, you just don't get in the way of it.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Mother, Believe, Way

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I do believe there's a place for anger in spiritual life. Just as a mother protects a child, as parents protect offspring under threat, we need a place for the conscious use of that fire. The positive side of anger as fierceness.

  Mark Coleman

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to dominate a small breeding group.

  Noam Chomsky

  Groups, Mutation, Might

  Source: libcom.org

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• I think people who are horrifically abused as children and then start to repeat the same thing to their own offspring or to others, you start to see evil inherent. That's what the Catholic Church feels is necessary to exorcise, to cleanse.

  Rupert Wyatt

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

  Hermann Graf Keyserling

  Men, Unhappy, Majority

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• Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the other hand, among turkeys, the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin birth are males. So if Jesus was a male, he might also have been.

  Frank Zindler

  Jesus, Hands, Turkeys

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• From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Romantic Love, Ideas, Creating

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

  Dick Cavett

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Stars

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.12, Macmillan

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• The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.

  William Graham Sumner

  Civilization, Giving, Envy

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• Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.

  Robin Sharma

  Goal, Excellence, Realization

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• The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

  Bertrand Russell

  Catholic, Church, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.43, Routledge

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• The smile that illumines the features of beauty,
  When kindled by virtue, alluring appears;
  But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow,
  To vie with the softness of beauty in tears.
  The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving;
  Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears;
  But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling,
  And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears.

  Henry George Bohn

  Feelings, Magic, Cold Hearted

  Henry George Bohn (1867). “A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets”, p.623

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• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Country, Soldier

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• The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Mean

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1995.

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• Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Mean, Errors, Race

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• There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Vanity, People

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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• Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Incapacity, Cunning, Treachery

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• Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Calumny Is, Envy, Gossip

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• The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind.

  Josephus

  Children, Law, Abortion

  Flavius Josephus (2015). “Writings of Josephus: Book 2”, p.283, Lulu.com

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