Quote by Thomas Jefferson
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impr

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson

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Banks / Banking
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There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world. – Thomas Jefferson

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Fear
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Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers. – Author Unknown

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Daughters

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter. – James T. Adams

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Daughters

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. – Joseph Addison

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. – Oscar Wilde

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Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. – Jane Howard

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To be told that one can be dependent on ones parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. – Dennis Prager

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. – Abraham Lincoln

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Faith is important to me. – Vera Farmiga

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