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		Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Orison Swett Marden
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Fogelman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I left the city to accomplish something. And by leaving the city and trying to accomplish something, I've been a terrible cousin, brother, son some days.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				BJ the Chicago Kid
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vance Packard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Candice Olson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nancy Gibbs
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mara Brock Akil
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If my kid came to me and said 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kirk Cameron
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Levon Helm
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I know he showed my son a lot of stuff when he was an apprentice, ... I hope they get whoever did this.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Larry Dunn
			
			
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		I'm in the mood for 'Shark Tank' sometimes. When I am, my son and I can't stop watching. But I probably watch 'The Bachelor' more, and Scott Foley and I text about it, like, 'Oh my God, did you see that?!' I love it. It's such a train wreck.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Newbern
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Larry Hogan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karen Salmansohn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		That's like - my thing is I'm always like, 'Oh, white men are ruining everything,' and Max's dad is like... don't say that in front of your son.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jennifer Konner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Ellos también son como yo, me digo. Y así me defiendo de ellos. Y así me defiendo de mí.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Antonio Porchia
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David A. Bednar