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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. – Alexander Graham Bell

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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. – Colin Powell

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Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. – Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy, 1994

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