"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
-Don Marquis
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"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.“
-Don Marquis
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"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."
-Don Marquis
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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
-Don Marquis
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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
-Don Marquis
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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
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"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."
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"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."
-Christopher Monckton
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"More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue."
-Joyce Maynard
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"But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people."
-Andrea Martin
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"I've always known I wanted a family."
-Charlize Theron
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"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
-Bob Geldof
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