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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#differentiated #directly #family #functions #highly

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#about #divorce #express #family #for the people

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#also #because #blonde #dumb #i

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#am #capable #i #i am #i can

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#before #different #ourselves #quite #seem

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#change #griefs #heals #longer #more

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #former #gift #god #human

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#entire #importance #least #movement #nature

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#great ones #indicates #indifference #inversion #matters

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#different #different sides #eyes #find #only