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Bill Cosby

"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children."

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"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children."

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"Then Siddhartha began to understand that his son had not brought him happiness and peace, but suffering and worry. But he loved him, and he preferred the suffering and worries of love over happiness and joy without the boy."

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"One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children's day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: 'I see you; I notice you; I love you.'"

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"Parents' transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages."

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"Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born."

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"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."

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"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents."

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"It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his huge trusting brown eyes. It's like bitch-slapping E.T."

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"I really love to read bedtime story for my kids before they fall asleep.Making them so excited and inspired, it's truly my favorite quality time."

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"I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body."

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"After having been standing by the gate of the garden for a long time, Siddhartha realised that his desire was foolish, which had made him go up to this place, that he could not help his son, that he was not allowed to cling him. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine."

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