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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 (1874-1946), U.S. author. Paris France, pt. 4, Charles Scribner's Sons (1940).)
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Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.
(Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), U.S. president. letter, Dec. 18, 1942, to Sumner Welles. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 451, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952).)
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
(Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 3 (1944, rev. 1951).)
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All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
(Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian novelist, philosopher. Anna Karenina (1873-76).
Opening words.)
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Family is the first school for young children, and parents are powerful models.
(Alice Sterling Honig (20th century), child development specialist. "Helping Children Become More Caring and Cooperative," NYSAEYC Reporter (winter 1994).)
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All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
(Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian novelist, philosopher. Anna Karenina (1873-76).
Opening words.)
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Family living can go on existing. Very many are
remembering this thing are remembering that family
living living can go on existing. Very many are quite
certain that family living can go on existing. Very
many are remembering that they are quite certain that
family living can go on existing.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. (Written 1903-1911), originally published Paris, Contact Editions (1925). The Making of Americans, Something Else Press (1969).
This is the summation of Stein's major novel, from the last of its 925 pages. The plot and characters are less significant than the writing style; this passage is characteristic of most of the book.)
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Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.
(Roger Gould (20th century), U.S. psychotherapist and author. Transformations, sec. 2 (1978).)
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