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Dont try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do i

Dont try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. – Russell Baker

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The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings. – Russell Baker

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communication
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. – Russell Baker

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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. – Russell Baker

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I have three daughters, so I cant be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids – especially daughters – they know how to work you. Theyre a lot smarter than we are, thats for sure. But Ill be more tough on their boyfriends. – Tim McGraw

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The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. Theres nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional. – George Herbert Walker Bush

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We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? – Ellen Goodman

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The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage. – Smiley Blanton

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. – Bertrand Russell

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I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me. – Eliza Dushku

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My experiences have taught me a lot and Im happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. – Ally Sheedy

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