"Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground."
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"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune."
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"If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?"
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"The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her."
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"Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others."
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"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them."
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"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."
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"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."
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"Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical as my daughter's observing, while our family was driving through an unfamiliar city, "Trying to read a map while driving causes all the traffic lights to turn green.""
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"Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness."
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"The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society."
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"The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it."
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"It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it."
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"We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that."
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"Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit."
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"No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick."
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"He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity"
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"Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time."
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"Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage."
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"The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants."
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