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• God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can chose our friends.
• God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends.
• God gives us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
• God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.
• You can pick your friends, but not your relatives.
• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, - from Hermann und Dorothea...
• Scott: "Thank God." Uhura: "Did you see the way they *ate*?
  Chekov: "Horrible table manners." Spock: "I doubt that our behavior will distinguish us in the annals of diplomacy....