"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."

Family, Childhood, Heaven

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"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."

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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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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."

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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."

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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

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"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."

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"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."

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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."

Fire,

"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."

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"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."

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"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."

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"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

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