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"For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run."

"For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run."

John Sununu, American Politician

Family, Children, Security, Sense, Talk

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"Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well."

"Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well."

Michael N. Castle, American Politician

Family, Children, Community, Future, Politicians

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"I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North."

"I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North."

Randy Harrison, American Actor

Family, Shame, Yankee

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"What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?"

"What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?"

O. J. Simpson, American Athlete

Family, Children, Kids, Police

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"I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city."

"I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city."

Bob Filner, American Politician

Family, Children, School, Schools, Years

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"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."

"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."

Mary Antin, Russian Activist

Family, Children, Noses

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"A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know."

"A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know."

Dwight L. Moody, American Clergyman

Family, Christian, Man

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"I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy."

"I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy."

Jim Carrey, Canadian Comedian

Family, Life, Money, Nothing

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"We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror."

"We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror."

Vince McMahon, American Entertainer

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"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."

"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Family, Mother, Heart, Hatred, Ireland

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"We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live."

"We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live."

Jim Clyburn, American Politician

Family, Children, Earth, Environment, Responsibility

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"There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village."

"There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village."

Roma Downey, Irish Actress

Family, Children, Fact

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"So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country."

"So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country."

Robert McChesney, American Critic

Family, Mother, Successful, Country

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"A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better."

"A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better."

Cleveland Amory, American Historian

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"I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it."

"I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it."

Robin Gibb, English Musician

Family, Now, World

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"My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer."

"My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer."

Leon Jouhaux, French Leader

Family, Mother, Parents, School

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"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."

"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."

Mickey Spillane, American Author

Family, Dad, Mother, Father, Churches

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"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."

"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."

Harriet Ann Jacobs, American Writer

Family, Childhood, Years

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"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

Vladimir Lenin, Russian Leader

Family, Children, Will, Years

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"Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries."

"Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

Family, Children, Countries, Suffering

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"Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service."

"Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service."

John Sergeant Wise, American Author

Family, Mother, Conscience, Duty, Needs

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"It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour."

"It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

Family, Children, May, World

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"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."

"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."

Robert MacNeil, Canadian Journalist

Family, Brothers, Months, Nations, Summer

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"Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome."

"Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome."

Rosa Parks, American Activist

Family, Children, Racism

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"My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man."

"My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

Family, Father, First, Man

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"My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today."

"My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today."

Andre Braugher, American Actor

Family, Life, People, Commitment

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"But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three."

"But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three."

Jeanne Tripplehorn, American Actress

Family, Marriage, People, Character

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"Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family."

"Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family."

Ferdinand Mount, British Writer

Family, Existence, Will

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"There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label."

"There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

Family, Children

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"Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S."

"Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Family, Mother, Europe, Taste, World

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"When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness."

"When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

Family, Brother

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"Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well."

"Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well."

Jamie Redknapp, English Athlete

Family, Dad, Manager

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"One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."

"One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

Family, Humor, Sense

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"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale."

"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Family, Father, Philanthropy

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"If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first."

"If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first."

Larry Bird, American Coach

Family, Children, First

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"My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me."

"My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me."

Jamie Redknapp, English Athlete

Family, Dad, Business

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"Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation."

"Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation."

Alice Miller, Swiss Psychologist

Family, Childhood, Disease

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"To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people."

"To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people."

Alice Walker, American Author

Family, Mother, People, Despair, Future

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"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."

"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."

Beverly Cleary, American Author

Family, Mother, Father, People, Evening

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"Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness."

"Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness."

Alan Thicke, Canadian Actor

Family, Fitness, Time

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"I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken."

"I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken."

John Robinson, American Football Coach

Family, Emotions, Trying

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"In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here."

"In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

Family, Children, Countries, Running

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"The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased."

"The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased."

Charles Perrault, French Author

Family, Son, Day, Pretty, Sisters

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"Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding."

"Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

Family, Motherhood, Love, Emotion, Positivity

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"Good words will not give me back my children."

"Good words will not give me back my children."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

Family, Children, Will, Words

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"You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choices they're making."

"You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choices they're making."

Brene Brown, American Researcher

Family, Parenting, Care, Judgment, Responsibility

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"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents."

"When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents."

Allan Sherman, American Musician

Family, History, Trouble, Will

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"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."

"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Family, Childhood, Heaven

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"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."

"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Family, Trouble

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"As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us."

"As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

Family, Children, Effect

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