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The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangeme

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. – Christopher Lasch

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A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. – Christopher Lasch

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It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family. – Christopher Lasch

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Family
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The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. – Christopher Lasch

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So live that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers

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Family

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. – Max Muller

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Family

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way. – Marcia Wallace

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Family

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. – Margaret Laurence

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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. – Edward Abbey

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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. – Yiddish Proverb

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When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. – Ogden Nash

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But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than theyve been brought there by no fault of their own, I dont think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society. – Rick Perry

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