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“What is our family? We touch our full hearts and see ourselves reflected whole in each other's eyes.”

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Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.”

“... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.”

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Author:Stephanie Coontz

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.”

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Author:Ednita Nazario

“There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.”

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Author:Willie Stargell

“The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.”

“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”

Source: Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel

“The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.”

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Author:Jean Charest

“I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life-the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.”

“Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”

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Book:Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato

Source: Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato

“I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.”

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Author:Tom Cruise