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"When I made the decision to retire, I had three options. The first option was, I don't retire, I stay in the kitchen, I continue to work six or seven days a week, I kiss my children goodbye in their b…"

"The best way to help children is to help their mothers live long to raise them."

"Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he des…"

"Dodgeball? My children were playing dodgeball? That cruel, brutal, violent schoolyard game so mercilessly satirized in the 2004 film with Ben Stiller? The game, more important, that exemplified everyt…"

"The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit."

"I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras … I plan to have handbags made from my skin … and an umbrella stand made from my seat."

"France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."

"So there's no question about it: by the mid-fifties, America was definitely in a Golden Era, an era of excitement and opportunity for all citizens, regardless of race or creed or color, unless the per…"

"No cow gives milk unless she gets pregnant and gives birth to a calf. The milk is meant for the calf. … But our greed is greater than any reasonable person could expect: we do not allow the calf even …"

"Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son"

"I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!"

"Your culture is different to ours. We're not ready for all this in Brazil because no father would ever take pride in having a gay son. Pride? Happiness? Celebrating if his son turns out gay? No way. L…"

"Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."

"The economy is so bad, I saw Matthew McConaughey talking to himself in a Kia! THAT'S how bad it is!"

"He settles in the kitchen because the children are asleep all over the rest of the house. I unknot his tie and offer him a cold sandwich. He raps my backside, paying attention to the bounce. I walk ar…"

"One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another."

"For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it w…"

"I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me— I was a father."

"Philosophers often behave like little children who scribble some marks on a piece of paper at random and then ask the grown-up "What's that?" — It happened like this: the grown-up had drawn pictures f…"

"Firstly, I have a charitable trust that focuses on alleviating social deprivation in Scotland, with a particular emphasis on women and children. Among other things, my trust supports projects for fema…"