"If left alone in labor, the body of a woman produces most easily the baby that is not interfered with by its mother's mind or the assistant's hand. If left alone, just courage and patience are required."

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Source : Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.371, Pollinger in Print

Grantly Dick-Read

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“...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.”
“most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.6, Harvard University Press
“One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.”

Source : "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury”
“Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.”
“As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.”
“We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.”

Source : William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.125, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
“I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence ... And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.”

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