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

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Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

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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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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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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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

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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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Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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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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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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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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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 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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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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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

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