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    No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

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    Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

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    Anyone can dig a ditch. There's no way to dig smarter. Or dig faster. Having a baby is like being assigned to dig a ditch. That goes all the way to the horizon.

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    Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

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    Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

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    If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.

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    One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

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    The modern virtues fail because they concern the outer self, the human facade, the part of ourselves the world sees most readily – while the classical virtues form an organizing framework for our inner selves… for our souls.

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    Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.

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    when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no longer put children at the center of their lives. Instead, they put themselves there.