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Bill Toomey

"My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed."

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"My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

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"And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we'd meet there again."

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"What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers."

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"Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for their children,or that's our fond belief.But remember - Hanseland Gretel were dumped in the forestbecause their parents were starving."

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"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off.""

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"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."

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"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."

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"Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you."

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"There is only one mother in this world who is the best one, the one that every kid has got."

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"Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits."

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