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“Families, like individuals, are unique.”

Individual Family Unique

Book:Norman Vincent Peale: Words That Inspired Him

Source: Norman Vincent Peale: Words That Inspired Him

“A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.”

Needs Individual Family Team Aim Aspiration Team Work Supporting Each Other

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of the family as a composite photograph is formed of the features of different individuals.”

Different Feelings Home Spirit Individual Family Members Photograph Features Thoughts And Feelings Composites

Book:Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”

Home America Individual Sin Race Family Horror Destruction Slavery Instinct Shelter Savages Relentless Cardinals Race In America

Author:Fannie Barrier Williams

“A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.”

Littles Long Country Matter Facts Individual Strong Wealth Common Family Land Members Weak Blind Unity Seven Treasure Plot Wealthy Torn Wretched Egotism

Book:Letters of Two Brides

Source: Letters of Two Brides

“As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.”

Long Individual Family Influence Property

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.”

Firsts Children Individual Growth Pay Family Four Cutting Taxes Rate Improvement Income Code Boards Junk Tax Cuts Fiddle Exemption

Author:Steve Forbes

“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.”

“It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.”

“In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.”

“The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization”

Love Life Happiness Success Individual Attitude Family Civilization Sickness

Book:Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Source: Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

“The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.”

Individual Community Levels Family Society Creation Happy Peaceful Buddhist Neighborhood Expanding Contribution To Society

Book:The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World

Source: The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World

“It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.”

Children Persons Stories Lying Reading Individual Family Particular Computer Involvement Learning Experience

Book:Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classroom

Source: Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classroom

“It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.”

Source: Healology