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"True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency."
"Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader."
"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."
"I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap."
"I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine."
"I am an only child. I have one sister."
"It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life."
"Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage."
"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."
"But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime."
"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."
"The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated."
"No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love."
"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained."
"A good friend is my nearest relation."
"Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game."
"I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much."
