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Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I h

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. – Thomas Mann

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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. – Thomas Mann

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. – Thomas Mann

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I want a baby and I want a family, for sure. – Rashida Jones

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At this time when I turn 50, because so theres many of my friends and family who didnt get to see 50-years-old, and so, Im celebrating for them too. – Reba McEntire

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The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high. – Iain Duncan Smith

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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. – Gertrude Stein

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Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. – Elizabeth Fishel

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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James

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