"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."

Family, Brotherhood, Dependence, Man, Obligation

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"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."

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

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

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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."

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

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"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

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"My mother is my friendWho shares with me her breadAll my hopelessness cured!Her company makes me secured!"

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"All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views."

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"This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died-what I call your 'spiritual security'-knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame."

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"And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way."

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"We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition."

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"The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands."

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"On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands."

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"These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks."

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"From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom."

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"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."

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