#fat

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. ↗

— Robert Bly

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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. ↗

— Franz Boas

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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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My father had gone to Vietnam. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. ↗

— Wade Boggs

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Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. ↗

— Black Elk

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Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

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One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

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