My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas. - Justin Cartwright

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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. — Jane Howard

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There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker. - Frances Hesselbein

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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

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I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad. ― Elon Musk

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I just want to be like a good example to somebody in the future. -Megan Thee Stallion

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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. _ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so. ― Barbara Barrington Jones

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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. - Bil Keane

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