"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

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"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

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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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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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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."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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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"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"

Philosophy

"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."

Society

"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."

Wisdom

"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."

Philosophy

"A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas."

Philosophy

"Religion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man."

Religion

"Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind."

Education

"Death like style is the removal of rubbish."

Philosophy

"Grow strong, my comrade that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will comeAt last to finer melody in you;That I may tell my heart that you beginWhere passing I leave off, and fathom more."

Friendship

"No language has ever had a word for a virgin man."

Identity