"Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young."

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Helen Fisher

#Children Quotes #Average Quotes #Europe Quotes

“Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.”
“But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.”
“It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.”
“Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.”
“But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.”
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
“children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.22
“For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.”

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