It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.
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Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
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Our business being to colonize the country, there was only one way to do it?by spreading over it all the associations and connections of family life.
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Family lore can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it on for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.
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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
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Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
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The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
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Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid,.. That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.
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Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle
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Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.
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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
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Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich
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We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.
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On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family life
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My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
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When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement alone
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