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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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Your ambition for accomplishment should exceed your dread of defeat.
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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'The path to accomplishment is unclear, but attempting to gratify everyone will assuredly lead to disaster.'
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Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
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'Not all who are blind are asleep, and not all who can see are watching.'
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People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
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Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
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Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
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Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
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It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
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Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
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The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.
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You can not make everybody happy.
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
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Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.
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I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
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Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
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If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
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You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
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Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
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A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
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No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
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If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.
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Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
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After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."
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Gray hair is God's graffiti.
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.
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There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.
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The heart of marriage is memories.
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Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
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The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.
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A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
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Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.
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You can't be everything to everyone
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The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.
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You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.
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Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.
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In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!
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There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
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Nobody ever says, "Can I have your beets?
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Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.
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Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
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Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.
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As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
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Never forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He's very, very busy.
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