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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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I enjoy what Im able to give my family. – Shia LaBeouf

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I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. – Rodney Dangerfield

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My grandfathers family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me. – Giada De Laurentiis

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You can say I had a severe case of Roots envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to… do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates

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When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom. – Alan Keyes

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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

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