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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death… I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. – Emma Thompson

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This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls! – Emma Thompson

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Morning
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It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. – Emma Thompson

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Knowledge
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I understand what its like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, Shes got her daughter shes got her husband. Yeah, but she hasnt got anyone else. – Emma Thompson

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Family
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There is something about poverty that smells like death. – Zora Neale Hurston

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Death

Death is the king of this world: Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. – George Eliot

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Death

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. – Percival Arland Ussher

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Death

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. – Taylor Caldwell

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Death

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Property is organized robbery. – George Bernard Shaw

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There is little success where there is little laughter. – Andrew Carnegie

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Whos to say that there is any more support for Freuds psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? – Tony Campolo

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