"I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness."
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"If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings."
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"There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!"
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"My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton."
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"I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your soulmate doesn't have to be your partner - your soulmate could be your best friend, your sibling, it doesn't have to be the person you marry."
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"Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that."
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"It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own."
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"Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood."
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"Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five."
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"I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it."
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"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."
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"Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential."
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"Not a lot of siblings have opportunity [of realizing ourselves and realizing each other], because they're always being pushed together so much. They need their time apart in order to realize themselves and realize who they are."
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"A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything."
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"If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too."
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"There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden."
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"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife."
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"Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people."
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"Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old."
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"Jill : What causes sibling rivalry? Tim : Having more than one kid!"
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