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"There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire – poison and antidote."

"I like roles that people don't recognize me in. … People are always telling me I'm sexy, but I don't think those things about myself. I know I've been coquettish since I was three years old. I like cl…"

"The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and e…"

"Try and take the incident out of the secular construct that we, in India, have perfected and see how bizarre such an attitude sounds in other contexts. Did we say that New York had it coming when the …"

"Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the …"

"In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently."

"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom."

"Brian Vickery at home at web.archive.org"

"Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping."

"President Clinton has made a few feeble swipes at addressing this issue , but one can only gape at the unintentionally comic spectacle of this man chastising the gun-lobby and America's love of violen…"

"With what reason canst thou expect that thy children should follow thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example? Thou dost but as it were beckon to them with thy head, and shew …"

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."

"You'll get knocked the fuck out like Mike Tyson! The proof is in the pudden, just ask DeShaun Holton, I'll slit your motherfucking throat worse than Ron Goldman!"

"Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action."

"My Father's Stand on Cuba Travel" by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, The Washington Post"

"When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a d…"

"I heard my mother remark occasionally: 'A man who accepts a job under anyone is a slave.' That impression became so indelibly fixed that even after my marriage I refused all positions. I met expenses …"

"My name is Steinar Steinsson, from Hlíðar in Steinahlíðar. I bid the king welcome to Iceland. We are of the same kin, according to the genealogy which Bjarni Guðmundsson of Fuglavík prepared for my gr…"

"All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work--and therefore as dads."

"Hearing has its own memory. It registers the dog whose sudden barking startled me as a child. The folk songs my nanny used to sing. The dadaism of a cabaret song from Berlin: ‘I tear out one of my eye…"