"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."

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"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do."

Jim Hightower, American Activist

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"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you."

Anna Quindlen, American Journalist

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"Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I've met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited toschool for Career Day."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Embarrassment, Parents, Children, Truth

"Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Children, Values, Love, Worth

"A father gives his child nothing better than a good education."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."

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