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“Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.”

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Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”

“One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.”

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Author:Robert Fulghum

“Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.”

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Author:Mary Karr

“Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.”

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Author:Maggie Gallagher

“The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.”

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Author:Scott Means

“The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.”

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Author:Sammy Hagar

“A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason”

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Author:Hugo Grotius

“[T]he "home" represents the most precious human treasures, that of encounter, that of relations among people, different in age, culture and history, but who live together and together help one another to grow. For this reason, the "home" is a crucial place in life, where life grows and can be fulfilled, because it is a place in which every person learns to receive love and to give love.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.”

Reason Together Suffering Family Groups Economic West Edges Stranger Finished Odd Reason To Live Jagged Edge

Author:Gore Vidal

“The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love.”