The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. Hes fighting for a group ethic of some sort. – C. J. Cherryh

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I, for one, am quite willing to join the forgive, forget and move on crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family. – Tony Campolo

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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. – Christopher Lasch

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We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. – Jerry Falwell

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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you cant do because we feed ourselves so much denial. – Zoe Saldana

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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Seize the day” drains dignity from “Carpe diem.” – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010, about translation

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A barrier is of ideas, not of things. – Mark Caine

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