"I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control."

Family, Mother, Thought, Control, Birthcontrol

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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"We Lannisters do have a certain pride," said Tyrion Lannister."Pride? Catelyn snapped. His mocking tone and easy manner made her angry. "Arrogance, some might call it. Arrogance and avarice and lust for power."My brother is undoubtedly arrogant, Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you? He grinned."

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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"I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third."

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"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full."

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"Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur."

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"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."

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"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic."

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"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion."

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"I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work."

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"All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life."

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