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Edmund Leach

"Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents."

Edmund Leach, British Scientist
Family, Society, Being, Privacy
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"Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents."

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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

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"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

John Green, American Author
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"When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood."

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"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer
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"Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family."

Liza Minnelli, American Actress
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