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• One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sister, Sibling, Men

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

  Soundarya

  Looks, Administration, Spendthrift

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• Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  Byron Katie

  Sister, Daughter, Sibling

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• Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Sibling, Grandma

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• It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Christmas, Sibling, Healing

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

  Nicki Minaj

  Children, Niece, Want

  "Nicki Minaj: 'I have bigger balls than the boys'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sister, Sibling, Kids

  "Why we can never escape our siblings". Interview with Mandy Van Deven, www.salon.com. September 11, 2011.

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• It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

  Mitt Romney

  Party, Ideas, Bigs

  Mitt Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.npr.org. September 3, 2008.

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• I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Relationship, Men, White Man

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 10 Sept. 1962

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• What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

  Gene Tierney

  Mother, Europe, Different

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Thank You, Hands

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Sister In Law, Pigs, Evil

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Together, Musician, Would Be

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• It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

  Alex Van Halen

  Guitar, Rooms, Minutes

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• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  Tammy Bruce

  Husband, Welfare, Bigs

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.81, Crown Forum

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• Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Girl, Suicide, Father

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.

  Michael Franti

  Brother Sister

  Song: Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Album: Everyone Deserves Music, 2003

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• He aint heavy, he's my brother.

  Neil Diamond

  Relationships Ending, Heavy, Family Values

  Song: He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother, Album: Tap Root Manuscript, 1970

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• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

  Muhammad Ali

  Years, Figures, Famous Boxer

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• And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

  Beau Bridges

  Sports, Kids, Guitar

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

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• And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

  Jean Ingelow

  Way, Bitter, Mets

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.92

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• I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

  Charlie Sheen

  Littles, Wanted, Little Brother

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• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

  Stewart Udall

  Native American, Son, Loving Life

  Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith

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• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  Taryn Manning

  Sister, Growing Up, Dad

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