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Banana Yoshimoto Novelist
Parent

"No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want."

Parent Childhood Adults
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Epictetus Philosopher
Parent

"Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do."

Children Parent Leader
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Parent

"Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent"

Children Parent
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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Parent

"Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free."

Years Names Parent
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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
Parent

"If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee."

Parent Understanding Teenager
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Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter
Parent

"I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that."

Want Parent Brain
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Jamal Lewis Football Player
Parent

"I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them."

Children Mistake Parent
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Nikola Tesla Inventor, Electrical Engineer
Parent

"The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny."

Race Parent Civilization
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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
Parent

"My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school when they were quite young to work, because there actually was no choice. So they've always impressed me with their resilience, their good spirits, their courage. I just remember them carrying on and just doing their lives. They really made a strong impression on me."

School Strong Parent
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Michael Grant Author
Parent

"[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles."

Real Interesting Parent
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Plato Philosopher
Parent

"Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

Parent Poverty Luxury
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Plato Philosopher
Parent

"The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit."

Children Use Parent
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