"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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"A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member."
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"That best academy, a mother's knee."
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"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."
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"The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on."
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"Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents."
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"In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard."
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"God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion."
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"Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters."
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"The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them."
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"The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me."
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"Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time."
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"All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up."
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"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."
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"Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking."
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"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
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"The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future."
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"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial."
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"The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love."
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"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
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