"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish."

Family, Society, Life, People

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"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish."

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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.""

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment."

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"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

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"Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire."

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"The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message."

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"Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men."

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"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."

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"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."

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"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

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"There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best."

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"Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it."

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