"I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm."

Family, Children, Harm, Obligation

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"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!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"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."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Family, Humor, Memory, Generations

"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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"...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."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Family, Emotion, Sadness, Life

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Life, Baby, Value

"My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Family, Fate, Bitterness, Acceptance

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"Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens."

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"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit."

"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!"

"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."

"Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels."

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

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

"My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers."

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"Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities."

"These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things."

"Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response."

"What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt."

"I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations."

"Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens."

"I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans."

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