"The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young."
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"I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there."
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"My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream."
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"It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents."
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"I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didnt spend that much time with him. I used to put head phones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and kind of had a weird bonding in a way."
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"How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?"
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"A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow."
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"There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences."
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"Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?"
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"My parents don't really watch movies at all."
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"Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion."
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"Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health."
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"What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'"
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"Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health."
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"It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV."
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"Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general."
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"Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?"
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"If you haven't already told your kids 'don't fellate the president' then you're probably a bad parent."
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"If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience."
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"Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too."
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