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Apparently, it used to be extremely common for families to have two parents. They stayed together because that's what all the other parents did. Now there are so many options, so many different ways to be a family. So many ways to rip a family apart.

—Susane Colasanti in So Much Closer

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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

—Woodrow Wilson

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I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

—Rita Rudner

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I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

—Tom Hanks

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Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

—Peter York

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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

—Groucho Marx

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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

—Doug Larson

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Order is power.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

—Louis XIV

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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

—Rupert Brooke

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

—Vincent Van Gogh

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That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

—Corita Kent

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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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