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~ Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. ~  ~ American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation of an ant colony, and the persistence of a stream carving canyon rocks. These are not the strengths of fixed monuments but living organisms. This resilience is not measured by wealth, muscle or efficiency but by creativity, unity, and hope. Cultivating these family strengths is critical to a thriving human community.
~ ~ Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
~ ~ Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~ ~ Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family:
Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~ ~
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. ~ ~ Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
~ ~ Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ~ ~ A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ~ ~ The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
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