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Olive Schreiner

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother."

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Akiroq Brost

"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

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Akiroq Brost

"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."

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Akiroq Brost

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."

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"You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night."

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"There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father."

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"Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."

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"I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue."

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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

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"They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it."

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Olive Schreiner
"There was never a great man who had not a great mother."

Family

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Olive Schreiner
"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."

Man

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Olive Schreiner
"Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist."

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Olive Schreiner
"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."

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Olive Schreiner
"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."

Sleep

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Olive Schreiner
"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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Olive Schreiner
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."

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Olive Schreiner
"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."

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Olive Schreiner
"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."

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