One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.
Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.
This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.
Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.
Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.
I'm a big foodie, I do a lot of yoga - I love yoga - I love running. . . I just enjoy being really active, and traveling.
I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.
Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
Where men can't live gods fare no better.
The developments in the North were those loosely embraced in the term modernization and included urbanization, industrialization,and mechanization. While those changes went forward apace, the antebellum South changed comparatively little, clinging to its rural, agricultural, labor-intensive economy and its traditional folk culture.