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The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never

The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. – Dodie Smith

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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. – Dodie Smith

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What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. – George Eliot

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We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. – Marquise de Sévigné

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? – Garrett Hardin

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Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. – Muhammad Yunus

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