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"This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby, Calla said."
Maggie Stiefvater
"This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby, Calla said."
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"Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice."
Michelle Obama
"Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice."
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"A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though."
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
"A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though."
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"I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard."
Paris Hilton
"I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard."
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"A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results."
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
"A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results."
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"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy."
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now."
John F. Kennedy
"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now."
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"I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well."
Heidi Klum
"I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well."
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"My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me."
Lord Mountbatten
"My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me."
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"I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family."
Jerry Only
"I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family."
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"Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids."
Erma Bombeck
"Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids."
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"We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle."
"We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle."
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"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes."
Kim Campbell
"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes."
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"My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy."
Blake Lively
"My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy."
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"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values."
Al Sharpton
"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values."
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"Your children need your presence more than your presents."
Jesse Jackson
"Your children need your presence more than your presents."
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"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."
Reinhold Niebuhr
"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."
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"It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me."
Robert Patterson
"It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me."
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"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults."
Melanie Klein
"One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults."
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"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."
Chanakya
"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."
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"My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids."
Mark Kelly
"My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids."
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"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."
Christopher Lasch
"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."
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"It is impossible to please all the world and one's father."
Jean de La Fontaine
"It is impossible to please all the world and one's father."
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"What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting."
Ron Reagan
"What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting."
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"But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me."
Heidi Klum
"But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me."
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"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures."
Vince Lombardi
"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures."
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"A man who envies our family is a man who needs help."
Yeardley Smith
"A man who envies our family is a man who needs help."
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"You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate."
Dusty Baker
"You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate."
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"My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night."
Danielle Steel
"My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night."
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"Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone."
Neil Kurshan
"Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone."
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"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
Anne Tyler
"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
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"Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves."
Tom G. Palmer
"Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves."
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"We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention."
John Hawley
"We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention."
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"Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme."
Diane Watson
"Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme."
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"I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family."
Nastassja Kinski
"I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family."
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"It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security."
Heston Blumenthal
"It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security."
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"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."
Juvenal
"A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years."
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"I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting."
Brendan Fraser
"I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting."
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"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
Carol Ann Duffy
"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
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"It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show."
Jonathan Frid
"It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show."
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"We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country."
Charles Ruff
"We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country."
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"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."
Ogden Nash
"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."
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"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"
Jeff Foxworthy
"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"
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"Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!"
"Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!"
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"The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids."
Danielle Steel
"The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids."
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"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."
Euripides
"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."
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"My parents always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product."
Gayle Forman
"My parents always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product."
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"We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family."
John Dykstra
"We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family."
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"The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family."
Wilford Brimley
"The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family."
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"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."
Lee Iacocca
"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."
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