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My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

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My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything.

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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

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I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.

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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

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Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

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As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

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Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

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The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

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Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

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There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

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I am utterly against any kind of guilt. Remember it always: if you start feeling guilty about something around me, then you are doing it on your own, then you are still carrying the voices of your parents, the priests within you; you have not yet heard me, you have not yet listened to me. I want you to be totally free of all guilt.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

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