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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."

"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."

"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."

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

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

"Fear is the mother of morality."

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."

"Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values."

"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
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