Decisive Moment

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    The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
    Daniel Patrick Moynihan (20th century)

    Do you mistake me?
    I am speaking of living,
    of moving from one moment into
    the next, and into the
    one after, breathing
    death in the spring air....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)