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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
Father

"The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God."

Character Home Father
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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
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"Trouble comes looking for you. Lots of times I just stay in the house and enjoy my family. I try to be a father to my child, I'll stay out of trouble if I can, because I have lots to do. Other folks have different hardships. It's hard for a black man to raise a family."

Men Children Father
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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Lying Father Death
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Stephen King Author
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"Disney cartoons are all rated G. It's really funny. There are kids all over the world who still have complexes over Bambi's father getting shot by the hunter and Bambi's mother getting crisped. But that's the way it's always been. This is the sort of material that appeals to kids. Kids understand it instinctively. They grip it."

Kids Mother Father
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Steve King Politician
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"Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it."

Government Father Democracy
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Ron Reagan Political Figure, Broadcaster
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"I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way."

Thinking Kids Father
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit."

Father Jesus Son
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"My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something."

Thinking Father Brother
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening."

Men Children Father
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J. C. Watts Politician
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"In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad."

Father Dad Titles
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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you."

Inspirational Mother Father
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
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"What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break."

Father Uncles Nephew
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"I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth."

Father Missing Fundamentals
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Justice, Jurist, Author
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"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."

Thinking Father Done
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Nancy Reagan Political Figure, First Lady
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"It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher."

Father Rich Conservative
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Laozi Philosopher
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"Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and names, before heaven and earth, before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see beyond boundaries to the subtle heart of things, dispense with names, with concepts, with expectations and ambitions and differences. Tao and its many manifestations arise from the same source: subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding."

Heart Mother Father
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Larenz Tate Actor
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"Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests."

Mother Father Careers
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Gail Buckley Author
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"Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of Mary, prayer books, Scriptural resource books on Apologetics, Typology, concordances, bible dictionaries, bible encyclopedias and at least 40 bibles - both Catholic and Protestant editions in several different translations."

Book Father Prayer
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