"The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

George Orwell, British Author

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Give, Up, Believe

"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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Family, Blessed, Womb, Birth, Mother

"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

Family, Ideal, Relationship, Life

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Family, Nostalgia, Memory, Comfort, Love

"Children are angels."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Family, Rules, Rebellion, Youth, Identity

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"We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo."

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"In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color."

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"The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them."

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"People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another."

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"My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States."

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"I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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

"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."

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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

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

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

"Children are angels."

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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"We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo."

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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."

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"The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them."

"People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another."

"My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States."

"I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition."

"The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself."