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

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What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

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Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

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I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26.

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Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

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For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

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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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A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

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

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

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I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

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My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

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I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

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But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

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I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

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