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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

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Tolstoy, Leo. Анна Каренина [Anna Karenina]. The Russian Messenger, 1875-1877. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever.

Michael Corleone

The Godfather

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The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972.

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They are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.

Margaret Thatcher

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Thatcher, Margaret. "No Such Thing as Society." Interviewed by Douglas Keay. Woman's Own, 23 Sept. 1987.

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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather

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The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972.

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I don't want a new family. I don't want any family. Families suck!

Home Alone

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Home Alone. Directed by Chris Columbus, Hughes Entertainment , 1990.

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I don’t care how close you are. In the end, your friends are gonna let you down. Family: they’re the only ones you can depend on.

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos

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"Members Only." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Terence Winter, directed by Tim Van Patten, season 6, episode 1, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2006.

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You don't fool with a man's family. This is my son, not yours.

A Bronx Tale

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A Bronx Tale. Directed by Robert De Niro, Price Entertainment/TriBeCa Productions, 1993.

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Am I my brother's keeper?

Cain

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Genesis 4:9

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 4:9).

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Your country ain't your blood, you remember that.

The Godfather: Part II

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The Godfather Part II. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures Studios/American Zoetrope/Coppola Company, 1974.

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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 2.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

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Delille, Jacques. La Pitié, poeme en quatre chants. Brunswick: F. Vieweg, c. 1804, canto 1.

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How you feel about your family is a complicated thing. Deep down, you'll always love them. But you can forget that you love them, and you can hurt them and they can hurt you, and that's not just because you're young.

Home Alone

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Home Alone. Directed by Chris Columbus, Hughes Entertainment , 1990.

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The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Right here, right now. Salute, mi familia.

Dominic Toretto

Fast Five

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Fast Five. Directed by Justin Lin, Original Film/One Race Films, 2011.

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Never tell anyone outside the family what you're thinking again.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather

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The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972.

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La familia es todo.

Breaking Bad

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"One Minute." Breaking Bad, written by Thomas Schnauz, directed by Michelle MacLaren, season 3, episode 7, High Bridge/Gran Via Productions/Sony Pictures Television, 2010.

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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. "Vanity Fair." Punch, Jan. 1847-July 1848. Monthly serial.

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair, edited by John Carey. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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At the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around and you tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year.

Frank Costanza

Seinfeld

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"The Strike." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Dan O'Keefe, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 9, episode 10, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1997.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.

Francis Bacon

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Bacon, Francis "Of Marriage and Single Life." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Marriage and Single Life." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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