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Sometimes, I stop and realize the only reason I'm still alive is thanks to my true friends and family. ↗

— Anonymous

#family

By some estimates, the data-storage curve is rocketing upward at the rate of 800 percent per year. Organizations are collecting so much data they're overwhelmed. Families are no different; we have more things on disk, more photos, more items stored than we'll ever have to allocate time for. "Since Kodachrome made way for jpeg, pictures accumulate on hard drives like wet leaves in a gutter." (Jim Lewis, author of "The King is Dead") ↗

— Jeff Davidson

#family

Multilate. Ha Ha Ha,' said Nusswan, avuncular and willing to pretend it was a clever joke. 'Its all relative. At the best of times, democracy is a see saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to break a few democratic eggs. To fight fascism and other evil forces threatening our country, there is nothing wrong in taking strong measures. Especially when the foreign hand is always interfering to destabilize us. Did you know the CIA is trying to sabotage the Family Planning Programme? ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#democracy #emergency #xenophobia #family

I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need and modeling for them the depths of Christ's love. "...make myself available in the routine tasks and myriad interruptions of daily life b/c I believe it is God's will for me to serve my family through them. ↗

— Sally Clarkson

#parenting #family

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time. ↗

— Edith Pargeter

#family #rivalry #family

It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family. ↗

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

#story #family

Lucy settled into August's kitchen as if they were a family. ↗

— Susan Richards Shreve

#home #kitchen #family

But the editor in chief was already balding and worked a lot. He was at the mercy of his family and apartment. He enjoyed lying down on the couch for a spell after dinner and reading Pravda before bed. ↗

— Ilya Ilf

#family

Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives. ↗

— Erik Larson

#family

All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let's play poker, we had a full team of adults right there. ↗

— Julia Marriott

#fancy #fun #funny #kids #laugh