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Quote by Bertrand Russell
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. – Bertrand Russell

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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic. – Bertrand Russell

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Math
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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinozas God, it wont love us in return. – Bertrand Russell

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God
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I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed. – Jennifer Garner

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I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldnt be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds – the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You cant substitute time, you just cant. – Corey Hart

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When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. – Lou Brock

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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. – Peter Agre

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They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. Thats the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build. – Michael Tilson Thomas

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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke

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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. – Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666

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