"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."

Family, Mother, Feeling

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"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

Stephen King, American Author

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"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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Mark Twain, American Author

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"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."

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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

History

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."

Patriotism

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

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"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

Society

"Women and foxes being weak are distinguished by superior tact."

Society

"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

Marriage

"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

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