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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright

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"In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that's sad too; nothing is even worth the changing of it."

Believe Lying Father

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!"

Mother Father Parent

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father."

Father Forgiving Forgive Me

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!"

Father Our Love Applause

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry."

Fall Father Money

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Willie Nelson Musician, Actor

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"As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on."

Law Father Advice

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

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"My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively."

Father Simple Hurt

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Veronica Roth Author

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"I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become."

Mother Father Desperate

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Veronica Roth Author

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"My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it."

Giving Father Divergent

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist

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"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents."

Father Wise Pregnancy

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate."

Father Science Ocean

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Ram Kapoor Actor

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"My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him."

Mother Father Growing Up

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer

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"Work is often the father of pleasure."

Father Pleasure

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer

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"The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it."

Christian Father Confused

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Ray Lewis Football Player

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"I think the fans, if you want to actually learn about us, I think you have to go way more intricate than just what you see on TV, because that's whatever they want to report. But it's just so much going on, and when you talk about being in our world you have to understand we're individuals too. We're not just athletes. No, we're fathers, we're sons. So when you put us through a job shortage you take away everything that we built."

Jobs Father Athlete

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Thomas Adams Author, Historian

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"Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence."

Father Son Essence

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

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"I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life."

Country Father Israel

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father

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"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia."

Father Religious Tombstone

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach

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"I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people.""

Father Opportunity Husband

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Tracy Chevalier Author

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"My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again."

Father Winter Ice

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