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"As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us."
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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
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"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."
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"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."
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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."
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"Fear is the mother of morality."
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"Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds."
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"My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!"
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"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"I squinted at her. "You're an adult. "You're an adult too. "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice. Mom leaned back and laughed."
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"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education."
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"Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm."
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"Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others."
Life

"The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had."
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"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart."
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"The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste."
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"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."
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"As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us."
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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
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"I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally."
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