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"In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said that the Secret Service taught Malia how to drive. In exchange, Malia taught the Secret Service how to throw a party when her parents are away."
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"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."
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"I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents."
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"My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite."
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"My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion."
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"Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before."
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"One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us."
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"Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become."
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"My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them."
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"The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with."
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"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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"When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for us but our parents never found that out. In a way, you avoid telling your parents what happened to you during those days."
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"How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it."
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"There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right."
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"I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available."
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"Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents."
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"Parents aren't sex education experts just because they are parents."
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"My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had."
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"If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues."
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