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"These sources of strength are with your loved ones. For many of you, your first instinct was to call home and let your moms and dads know that you were okay. Others took on the terrible duty of callin…"

"They had a person who was extremely proud that a number of the women had become doctors. And I wasn't interested."

"Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family. That is the acceptable and right thing to do. If we begin …"

"Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity."

"If she ever tries to fucking leave again, Im'a tie her to the bed and set this house on fire."

"What, you're tryin' to be my new wife? What're you, Mariah? Fly through twice!"

"If it is impossible to induce fathers to abandon their families, how much more impossible would it be to induce mothers? When Tolstoy sought to live the truly Christian life, the immediate obstacle he…"

"He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood, but Rosalie knew that he was still outside the gates."

"Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the …"

"They sang the praises of nature, of the sea, of the woods. They liked making songs about one another, and praised each other like children; they were the simplest songs, but they sprang from their hea…"

"An oak is no respecter of persons."

"Children defer to adults because they’re older, bigger and stronger. But it’s also because children believe that adults have reasons for what they do. There was nothing magical about the Pied Piper of…"

"I was surrounded by dance, music and religious chants, so it was that kind of a mood. Our family was very culturally-minded, especially my grandmother. She was also quite the disciplinarian. She made …"

"You don't understand the world unless you have children of your own... Unless you have children of your own that you are raising, you can't understand half of what's going on in the world, and the dam…"

"Her mother’s advice quoted in"

"This story contains many elements of my journey as a writer. As a Spanish-American, I gain much of my inspiration from the Latin world and often write about how the Anglo and Latin worlds collide, int…"

"Compañeros, this old man is my father. He has come to offer me rewards in the name of the Spaniards. I have always respected my father but my homeland comes first."

"If you work hard, you do your part, you should be able to give your children all the opportunities they deserve. That is the basic bargain of America."

"Example is the best lesson there is."

"That Famous Speech that Nelson Mandela NEVER Gave"