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"There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
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"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
"Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist."
"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper."
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