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		Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lao Tzu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chanda Kochhar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ariel Levy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chelsea Clinton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My first husband, John Barry, was a composer. I couldn't believe that this sophisticated, talented genius chose me and not any of the other girls. I was so flattered, so excited, so in love with him. Of course, my parents were horrified, as he'd been married once and had a daughter with the au pair girl.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jane Birkin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we're all in this together, and that's what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hillary Clinton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		In that portion of time where my parents were together, I got to see great love, great loyalty, and teamwork.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kimberly Guilfoyle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lily Rabe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wendy Kaminer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... 
Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to care about your work, but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amy Poehler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eunice Kennedy Shriver
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Too often she had seen the first indignation of disappointed parents at the marriage of the their children harden into a matter of pride, a matter of doggedness and principle, and finally become ridiculous. If the marriages turned out happy, how absurd to persist in an antiquated disapproval; if they turned out wretched, then how urgent the special need for love.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth von Arnim
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. But I really want to give it to my parents, my family, charities, and people around me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tyler Joseph
			
			
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		My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dorothy Hamill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Johnny Vegas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adora Svitak
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I first started pursuing acting professionally out of college, it was very much in my head that there would be comparisons with potentially both of my parents, and I found that pretty intimidating.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zoe Perry
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James MacArthur
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Homer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe R. Lansdale
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Caroline Pratt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What I was told by my parents was that, you know, take this inhibition out whether you're a girl or a boy. Basically, pursue your dream, and as long as you're a capable and hardworking human being, you will be able to follow and fulfill your dream.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chanda Kochhar