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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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The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

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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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My parents have raised me with a sense of what's really important and have given me decent values, and I'm comfortable, but I haven't lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I've kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.

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

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I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

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For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

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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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One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

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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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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

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

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All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

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

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The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

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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 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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When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

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