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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

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"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

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"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

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Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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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.""

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"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."

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"However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing."

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"To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence."

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"Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there."

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"If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants."

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"It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us."

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"Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect."

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"Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed."

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"And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience."

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