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Doubt is the father of invention.


Ambrose Bierce
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.


Jean de la Bruyere
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When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
Tom Hooper
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel Johnson
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I loved my mother and father.


Roger Moore
As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.
Louis Theroux
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My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.


Herbie Mann
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My mother is French, my father is Texan.


Mireille Enos
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My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.


David Bailey
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.


Carla Gugino
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This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.


Bill Irwin
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.


Natasha Trethewey
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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.


Erma Bombeck
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My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.


Liza Minnelli
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I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.


Carlisle Floyd
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My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.


Liza Minnelli
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
James Naismith
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I was born in Catanzaro, Italy, from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father.


Renato Dulbecco
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My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.


Tina Turner
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