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Proceed to not smoke weed around the seed.

Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity... Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.'

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their expectations. Much of the stress we experience in relationships comes from the false belief that men and women are now the same and have the same priorities, drives and desires

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

Satan's ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war.

Seventy-five years ago I was born in Tampico, Illinois, in a little flat above the bank building. We didn't have any other contact with the bank than that.

Seven years ago when I came, I said to you that I'll teach you how to be healthy, happy and holy and we will build a family which shall not have any facet of human life as an orphan; to build an exclusive family in which there is no facet of our life which is an orphan. 'In God we trust,' We are the trust of God and let us live it.

Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

Student: Sir, you said you must change the world. How can you change it, sir? Krishnamurti: What is the world? The world is where you live - your family, your friends, your neighbours. And your family, your friends, your neighbours can be extended and that is the world. Now, you are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself?

Success in your life is not a single achievement. It's all that you do with others and for others

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.

Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means - the bottom line - then for me it's if the family is healthy and happy.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.