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“we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.”

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Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.”

Thinking Stills Use Today Family Entertainment Sitcom

Author:Bob Newhart

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.”

“Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.”

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Author:Joan Benoit

“This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.”

Use Family Roots Pillow

Book:No Golden Gate for Us

Source: No Golden Gate for Us

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.”

Source: Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

“The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.”

People Thinking Want Made Use Family

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.”

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Author:Jerry Reed