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"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this." »Blaise Pascal, quoted by Rebecca West in BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1940
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"A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind." »Magha
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"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over." »Aesop
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"One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family." »Robert C. Byrd
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"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense." »John Irving
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"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." »Pope John Paul II
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"A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love." »Gray Davis
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"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." »Richard Bach
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"The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." »Richard Bach
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"I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns." »Jerrold Mundis
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"Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce." »John Pearson
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"That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional." »Laurie E. Colwin
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"Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." »Godfather, The
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"It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves." »Feltham
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"If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths." »Alexis Carrel
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"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family." »Jerry Seinfeld
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"There's a lot of heredity in that family." »Ralph Kiner
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"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know." »Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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"There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."" »Jerry Seinfeld
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"A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants." »Alexander Pope
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization." »William James Durant
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"The family is the country of the heart." »Giuseppe Mazzini
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"A married man with a family will do anything for money." »Charles De Talleyrand
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"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." »Desmond Tutu
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"Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got." »Rose Cherin
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"family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about." »Trey and Matt Stone Parker
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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." »George Bernard Shaw
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"A healthy family is sacred territory." »Unknown
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"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family." »J. S. Bryan
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"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage." »Erma Bombeck
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