"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."

Family, Life, Diversity, Talk

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"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."

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

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

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"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."

John Millington Synge, Irish Poet

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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."

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"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."

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"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."

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"The conservative revival cannot be dismissed."

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"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."

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"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."

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

Nature

"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."

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

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"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech."

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