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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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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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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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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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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

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I was born to poor because of honest parents.

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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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I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

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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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My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’

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What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.

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

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

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

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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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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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