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“The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.”

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Author:Charlene Weir

“Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.”

Giving Hard Home Fighting Situation Family Dying Protect Giving Up Relative Genes Captured Protect Yourself New Situations Fighting Hard

Author:Keith Henson

“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.”

“If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?”

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Book:Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World

Source: Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World

“In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.”

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Book:An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties

Source: An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties

“As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.”

“Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.”

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Author:Richard L. Evans

“I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.”

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Author:William S. Burroughs