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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 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 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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A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

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My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

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

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Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without 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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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

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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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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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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 was born to poor because of honest parents.

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

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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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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

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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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