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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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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 great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

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

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

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

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

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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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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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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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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

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

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

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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

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

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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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