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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
-Leo Tolstoy
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Family is the most important thing in the world."
-Princess Diana
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
-Margaret Sanger
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."
-Lewis Mumford
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"The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family."
-Paul Johnson
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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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