"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
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"In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television."
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
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"Being popular is the most important thing in the world!"
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"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
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"Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found."
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"I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family."
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"Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses."
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"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
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"As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her."
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"Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important."
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"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."
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"I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?"
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"I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story."
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"There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent."
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"Peace in society depends upon peace in the family."
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"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life."
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"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."
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"My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that."
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"By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away."
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