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~ Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? ~

Ronald Reagan

~ Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work. ~

William J. Wilson

~ Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-- over and over announcing your place in the family of things. ~

Mary Oliver

~ You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our childresn--that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himselfÖ ~

Chief Seattle

~ Wine to me is passion. It is family and friends. It is warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It is culture. It is the essence of civilization and the art of living. ~

Robert Mondavi

~ I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. ~

Brandi Chastain

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

Bo Bennett†

~ Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue. ~

Rosa DeLauro

~ Our employees are like extended members of our family. ~

Henry Ford

~ Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions. ~

Isaac Bashevis Singer

~ DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. ~

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

~ Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler. ~

MARC COOPER

~ Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats. ~

Henry Thomas

~ Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize. ~

Ronald Reagan

~ Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. ~

Cyril Connolly

~ With all my fans I got a family again. ~

Tupac Shakur

~ No matter where you go in Kentucky, people smile at you and wave and make you feel welcome. It is important for people who are away from family and home to associate something with home that can ease their minds of some of the things they left behind. I'm honored I had the opportunity to draw and paint the logo for them. ~

Chris Vaught

~ They didn't provide food or water. I lived in starvation because my family could not visit me and provide food. The world should press ahead with a resolution on Burma. ~

Bo Kyi

~ The little word is has its tragedies; it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder and the members of my family no longer know one another. ~

George Santayana

~ In exchange for that neutrality, we have agreed to preference Family First after the Greens in the upper house. ~

David Feeney

~ If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. ~

John Burroughs

~ If inflation continues, the two-car garage will be replaced by the two-family garage. ~

Unknown

~ The development of a country has to start at the foundation of the society, the family. ~

Begum Aga Khan

~ \\\"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.\\\" ~

Albom, Mitch

~ Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. ~

Nancy Mitford

~ The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. ~

Kendall Hailey

~ In time of test, family is best. ~

Burmese Proverb

~ In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions ~

Nathaniel Branden

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