"The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book."
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"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
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"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
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"Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way."
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"He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers."
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"A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree."
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"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low."
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"The government is becoming the family of last resort."
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"Father, you left me, but I never left you."
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"The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are"
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"Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day."
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"Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world."
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"I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries."
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"I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other."
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"Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant."
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"A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone"."
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"Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner."
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"My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family."
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"From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen."
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"Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental."
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