"Doubt is the father of invention."

Family, Father, Doubt, Invention

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

Art

"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

Society

"Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity."

Religion

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

Language

"Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket."

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"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."

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