"Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves."
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Habits of the Heart, pt. 1, ch. 3 (1985)
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Robert N. Bellah
Robert Neelly Bellah (February 23, 1927 – July 30, 2013) was an American sociologist, now the Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
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