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“Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).”
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“Every man is an impossibility until he is born.”
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“The after-party is always at a restaurant, and for me, the fun starts when I get a cheese platter. That's as f-ed up as I get.”
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“Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!”
Source : "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.
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“The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.”
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“As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had an opportunity as a young man to witness the change that was taking place in Harlem, the exodus of white folks leaving Harlem, which I thought was a very cohesive situation. But they felt that they needed to leave.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.”
Source : Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”
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“The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.”
Source : "Chelsea are banking on Italian job". cnn.com. October 21, 2003.