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Human kindness, warmth, interaction, friendship, and family are far more important than anything that can come across my cathode-ray tube.

Clifford Stoll
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy
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I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. -Anna Quindlen
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I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander The Great
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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Alice Meynell
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. -Harper Lee
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I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Dean Acheson
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Pope John Paul Ii
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They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers. -David Assael
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Family is the most important thing in the world.

Princess Diana
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And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

Senator John Kerry
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My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'. -Charles Barkley
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The families have become the doctors, the nurses and the social workers.

Dr. John Talbott
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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. -Barbara Bush
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The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

George Gilder
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I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

Hal Boyle
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To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned. -Catharine Esther Beecher
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Ain't no gay filter for the cash.

Michael Eric Dyson
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I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father.

Jules Feiffer
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. -Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger
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Homer: [drunk] Look, the thing about my family is there's five of us. Marge, Bart, Girl Bart, the one who doesn't talk, and the fat guy. How I loathe him.

Homer Simpson
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Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. -Sam Ewing
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Alex Haley
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The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Paul Johnson
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. -Lewis Mumford
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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Jane Howard
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Allan Bloom
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All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter. -Joseph Addison
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