"I have been contending all my life, and always with God."
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"I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church."
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"So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works."
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"One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got."
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"I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me."
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"My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline."
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"My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion."
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"If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality."
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"You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself."
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"My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell."
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"My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while."
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"It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often."
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