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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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"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

"Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation."

"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them."

"The answer to the question 'How many children do you have?' and the one to the question 'How many children are you raising?' are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men's children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children."

"Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad."You do remember your father?"No. I remember yours."

"Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath."

"Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously."

"It's a fool who thinks that having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fishheads I've ever heard. You have a responsibility, not only to a person but also to a spirit because that's what a child is. A pissing, crying, yawning, giggling, laughing package of spirit that is looking for you to take the lead. It's a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit."
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

"When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim."

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

"If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition."

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

"There is no rule that is true under all circumstances, for this is the real and not a statistical world. Because the statistical method shows only the average aspects, it creates an artificial and predominantly conceptual picture of reality."
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