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“Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.”

Might Family Conditions Particular Casts Insult Acceptable Cursing Signifying Aspersion

Book:All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Source: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.”

Family Particular Unhappy Stubborn About Family

Author:Daphne Merkin

“In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).”

Family Break Conditions Policy Particular Broken Program Crisis Institutions Scope Recessions Explicit Haphazard Patchwork

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.”

Way Problem Quality Family Generations Particular Manifestation Characteristics

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.”

Home Reality Reading Grows Born Family Growing Up Particular Towns Neighborhood Small Town Clans

Author:Chaim Potok

“And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected.”

Ifs Men World Children Doe States Care Asks Family Greater Particular Expected Bliss Delightful

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack and Other Writings

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack and Other Writings

“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

“In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.”

Thinking Hard Family Particular My Family

Author:Caroline Kennedy