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"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"My father started me singing in church."
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"I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give."
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"My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand."
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"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."
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"Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany."
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"I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't."
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"I am sorry I could not see my father."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
Wisdom
"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."
Responsibility
"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."
Learning
"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
Wisdom
"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
Law
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."
Philosophy
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
Psychology
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
Society
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
Creativity
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