"Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
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"Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money."
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"A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt."
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"Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help."
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"My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations."
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"Could we betray our parents by going back to them?"
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"I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment."
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"There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized."
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"The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you."
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"Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime."
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"Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose."
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"When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis."
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"Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother."
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"I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well."
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"All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents."
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"As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time."
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"One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result."
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"I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew."
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"Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home."
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"Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them."
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