Quote by Jeffrey Kluger
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our compa

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Were learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if theyre broken. Were also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings – stepsiblings, half-siblings – and the surprising power they can have. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Learning
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The golden child may be the oldest one, unless its the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless its the most sensitive. Its not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite – and typically they dont. – Jeffrey Kluger

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dad
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Toxins love to get you while youre young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when its mature and comparatively fixed. – Jeffrey Kluger

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environmental
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really cant fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me. – Barbara Mandrell

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The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. – Margaret Sanger

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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. – Frank Knox

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The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife. – Hitopadesa

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Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited. – George Santayana

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All men are created equal, then a few become firemen. – Author Unknown

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. Theres huge, visionary poetry in it. – Simon Callow

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