"It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance."
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"The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."
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"What is the son but an extension of the father?"
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"Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke."
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"Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity."
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"They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells."
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"Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily."
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"The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home."
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"A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with."
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"Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to think that night has the same power as day. There is just the power of light, with variations of intensity and interruption. Once the full scope of understanding is attained, duality fades away. Higher intelligence is manifested through integrated perceptions of wholeness which restore your recognition of the one spirit. The sons of God are those who do not explain life or manage it with dualistic concepts. The sons of God are those who seek to perceive wholeness in all things."
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"Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature."
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"I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only."
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"The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn."
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"The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons."
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"We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians."
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"Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice"
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"If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself."
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"[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing."
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"Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas."
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"Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace."
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