"If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too."

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Source : "How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy: Strategies for coping with 'Challenging' Relatives". Book by Denise Lang, 1992.

Virgil Miller Newton

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“I will go forward... I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean of circumstance... And the 'testimony of Jesus' will light up a lamp that will guide my vision through the portals of immortality, and communicate to my understanding the glories of the Celestial kingdom.”
“The future of human liberty ... means the future of civilization.”
“Everything may be expressed with almost nothing at all”

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