"Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself."

Family, Mother, Giving

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"Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

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"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

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"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."

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"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

Compassion, Impulses

"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

God, Sky, Space, Stars

"Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident."

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"Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play."

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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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