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"Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society." »Ruth Nanda Anshen
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"There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together." »Sir V Pritchett
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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." »Ogden Nash
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"The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption." »Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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"A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit." »Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance
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"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions." »Unknown
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"Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires." »Oliver Bevan
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"Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time." »Dr. Lillian Troll
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"The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe." »Anonymous
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"You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table." »Gypsy Smith
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"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born." »Pearl S. Buck
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