"I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them."

-- Eula Biss

#Kids Quotes #Son Quotes #Decision Quotes

“If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.”
“It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do.”
“Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.”
“I love my dog. I hate bankers. I have issues with women. In my head, Iâ€™m a great guy.”
“There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.”

Source : "Christian Leaders Condemn Hate Crimes Bill" by Connie Hair, humanevents.com. April 29, 2009.
“All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.”
“I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.”
“The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite.Â The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable.Â There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.”

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