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“The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.”

“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 re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.”

“...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.”

“Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity... Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.'”

“Those who think the family has had its day should think again.”

Thinking Should Family

Author:Eva Burrows

“I think actions speak louder than words is one thing I think I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.”

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Author:Ginni Rometty

“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.”

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Author:Ogden Nash

“I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.”

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Author:Belle S. Spafford

“It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.”

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Author:Marshawn Lynch

“Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?”

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Author:L. Tom Perry

“To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.”

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Book:The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“Never did I think that I became family entertainment.”

Thinking Family Entertainment

Author:Jimmy Buffett

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

Thinking Situation Family Ideals

Author:William S. Burroughs

“You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.”

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Author:Judith Guest

“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

“People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.”

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Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken.”

Thinking Knows Heart Used Father Family Broken Jerk

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.”

Thinking Trying Might Eye Water Behinds Family Try Your Best

Author:Stevie Wonder