"It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief."
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"The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it."
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"I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually."
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"When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people."
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"When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way."
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"And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father."
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"I feel for the first time in my life that I have really come to understand what the gospel actually is. It is about a Father who lost His kids and He simply wants them back...I look forward to the day when we will see sons and daughers in their full expression and freedom, rising up out of every nation of the world, exhibiting and expressing the person, nature and works of our Father and walking like Jesus in this broken world."
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"My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker."
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"My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool."
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""In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life.""
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"If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them."
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"War is the father of all things."
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"Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night."
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"And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father."
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"There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life."
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"My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh."
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"My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being."
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"One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father."
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"He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for."
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"I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy."
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