"Invention is the mother of necessity."

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

John Green, American Author

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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."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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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."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Children are great observers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My mama is my feeding bottle... She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!"

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"Have you ever observed that when a man gets a son he takes all the credit, and when he gets a daughter he blames his wife? And if they do not breed at all, we say it is because her womb is barren. We do not say it is because his seed is bad."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature."

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"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."

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