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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you a

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. – Desmond Tutu

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Gods love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. – Desmond Tutu

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Religion
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. – Desmond Tutu

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Hope
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANCs military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. – Desmond Tutu

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Forgiveness
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I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. Theyd never seen anything like it. – Hayden Fry

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I want to make sure my familys straight. – Lil Wayne

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People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult. – Keith Henson

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Family

Everybody has basically the same family, its just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. – Doug Coupland

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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. – Josh Billings

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A snowflake is one of Gods most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! – Anon.

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