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"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."
"A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept."
"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."
"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."
"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."
"My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated."
Explore more quotes by Keith Henson
"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."
"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen."
"Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them."
"Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now."
"Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error."
"I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian."
"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."
"I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved."
"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience."
"People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family."
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