“Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.” ShouldHomeNumbersInformationBirthInternetConnectionsDollarsIncludingPhonesAccessIncomeAddressesMailUsersPhone NumbersPersonal InformationInternet Connection Author:Al Franken
“Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.” UseGovernmentSchoolFormReligiousPrayerViewsLibertySupportTakenGroupsAtheismBirthTaxesIncludingPositive AtheismFinanceOrganizedAbortionIntroducingRevenuePublic SchoolCivil LibertiesBirth ControlOutlawZealousReligious Views Author:Norman Dorsen
“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.” MenWayChildrenEndsMotherWifeBirthHusbandConflictStressIncludingShockExhaustedHusband And WifeUnprecedentedDrainedBirth Of A Child Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation
“Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots of readers - including eminent critics - jump to conclusions: that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is a central background text, that Aschenbach is an inferior writer, that he's never been attracted by pubescent male beauty before, that he dies of cholera.” PeopleDiesMastersReaderBirthTragedyCriticsMalesIncludingBackgroundsConclusionIronyRemarkableInferiorsAmbiguityCholeraMale Beauty Author:Philip Kitcher
“Finally we promised to limit the birth rate. And this you really didn't believe; you smiled scornfully. Well, even in this things have gone well. The fact is that we have grown by over seventy millions in ten years, but it's also true that we have grown less than many other countries, including the countries of Europe.” YearsBelieveWellsCountryFactsMillionsGoneBirthTenLimitsEuropeRateIncludingOther CountriesSeventiesBirth Rate Author:Indira Gandhi
“President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.” CountryCareFightingPresidentPayQualityPlansBirthCostEqualStandingIncludingAccessOur CountryHealth CareGuaranteesPocketsPresident ObamaAffordableCarolinaBirth ControlGuarantees ThatNorth CarolinaEqual PayAffordable Health Care Author:Bev Perdue
“How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.” KnowsWellsRichBirthPeriodsStressIncludingBurningIntensityRich Life Author:Anais Nin
“Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength, good health, beauty, and sound senses; and external goods, such as wealth, friends, good birth, good children, good heredity, good reputation and the like.” ChildrenSoulHappinessThreeSoundWealthMoralVirtueBirthIntellectualIncludingSensesReputationGoodsGood HealthHeredityGood ReputationHealth Beauty Author:Sissela Bok