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In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.

~Burgess Owens

Topics: Crime Decades Explosion Exponential Families Fatherless Illiteracy Increase Since Witnessed Youth

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If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

~Byron Dorgan

Topics: Administration Burden Continue Does Dollars Economy Families Gasoline Hands High Increasingly Millions Millions Of Dollars Nothing Opec Our Out Pockets Prices Putting Straight Taking Will

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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

~C. J. Box

Topics: Angst Authors Bring Children Families Joy Off Often Put Reader Them Without

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It's rare that you see Latin families being portrayed as intelligent, sophisticated, and powerful entities.

~Camila Mendes

Topics: Being Entities Families Intelligent Latin Portrayed Powerful Rare See Sophisticated You

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We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.

~Campbell Newman

Topics: Additional Been Beyond Business Businesses Case Come Committed Election Families Financial Focus Going Importantly Impose Individuals Means New New Things Our Private Projects Spending Stress Things Up Work

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All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.

~Carl Hart

Topics: Aid Apartment Bedrooms Childhood Children Dependent Eventually Families Four Got Great Had Housing Mom Most Projects Received Welfare Were Where Without

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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Anxious Because Child Each Eggs Experience Families Fewer Genetic Give Lavish Less Mean Money More Parenting Parents Put Small Smaller Them Time Time And Money

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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Activities Actually Benefit Busy Childhood Children Danger Diminishing Families Homework Just Kids Law Many Modern More Other Particularly Plenty Returns Schedule Structured Subject Technology Teenagers Thrive Trappings Would Young

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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

~Carl Lewis

Topics: Afford Cannot Costs Families Health Here Homes Kids Live Make Our Pharmaceutical Raise Remain Rest Seniors Sure Until We Cannot

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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

~Carl Paladino

Topics: About Bit Died Entitled Families Ground Ground Zero How Kids Little Little Bit Memory Parents People Poor Poor People Respect Soldiers Those Thousand Three Two Wars Wives Zero

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