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The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
Approximate author period: c. 1933 AD · modern
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- Henry B. Eyring
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- Approximate author period: c. 1933 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Henry B. Eyring: documented birth year 1933; activity date not established. Wikidata Q949425, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q949425 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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