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• When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Strong, Children, Impact

  "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Facts, Surface

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• A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Order, People

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• I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

  Hamid Karzai

  Enemy, Neighbor, Interest

  Interview with Aryn Baker, bakhtarnews.com.af. May 13, 2012.

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• This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

  Paul Kane

  Encouragement, Home, Flames

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• All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

  Joan Chen

  Jobs, Children, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

  Eric Cantona

  Home, Foundation, Crucial

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• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

  Robert Browning

  Trust, Time, Spring

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

  Robert Bork

  Life And Love, Government, Law

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• Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

  Jeff Bezos

  Culture

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• Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

  Gary Bauer

  Moral Behavior, Morality, Marriage And Family

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• There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Evolution, Form, Family Life

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• In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

  Fiona Apple

  Healthy

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• While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, Government, Long

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• The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Mean, Attention

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• A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

  Jim DeMint

  Islamic, Light, Iraq

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• The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

  Aristotle

  Witty, Equality, Men

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• My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

  Robert Winston

  Father, Thinking, Doe

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• The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.

  Tom Vilsack

  Fighting, Administration, Immigration

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• Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.

  Emma Watson

  Independent, Years, Appreciate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

  Duke of Wellington

  Animal, Men, Born

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• Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.

  Michael Crichton

  Moving, Jurassic Park, May

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Essentials, Transformation, Social

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• There is nothing so stable as change.

  Bob Dylan

  Freedom

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