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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.


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Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laure...
LAURENCE J. PETER We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. This is a devastating loss for J and our team. J is a proven leader and when he sets goals, he gets ...
RUSS HELLICKSON The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
SALLY GARDNER I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.
MARY QUANT Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of ex...
HERBERT W. BOYER He and I knew things about each other that he didn't even tell his parents.
DANIEL KAYEE That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don'...
NINA LACOUR We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondne...
SAMUEL JOHNSON M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm?

J: He's just a...
KELLY BINGHAM M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm?

J: He's just a...
KELLY BINGHAM Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenme...
MALCOLM X I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and ...
BEVERLY MITCHELL I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and ...
BEVERLEY MITCHELL My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
TAMARA ECCLESTONE When Peter sets his mind to a thing," Tanngnost thought, "far be it from reason to stop him.
BROM It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL What I love about the story is that it's all about friendship and embracing the differences in each ...
JACQUELINE RUSSELL Who directed the video 'No More Drama' for Mary J. Blige. I was actually kickin' with J....
NE-YO What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness...
SUNDAY ADELAJA ...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to...
BRYNNA GABRIELSON Never thought I’d intentionally sleep on a bathromm floor next to a toilet while sober, but I mean...
J.A. REDMERSKI It's the story of parents whose children take their lessons at loving each other too literally,
DOUG HUGHES Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality t...
BIBLE That's kind of what it's about as a team. We've got to pick each other up.
COLE GILLESPIE Being a teenager is hard.
MAE WHITMAN I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.
VING RHAMES Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.
PETER USTINOV Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about fami...
ROD STEWART When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, ...
JOSE JAMES Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengt...
NICK CLEGG Well, each person sets their own preferences. The most important idea is that people can choose what...
DAVID MERRILL I respect both Peter and Brock as fighters, but Audley was the gold medal winner in 2000. Quite fran...
DAN GOOSSEN That is always the elephant in the room with J&J. Everyone wants to know what is going on in M&A, an...
BRUCE CRANNA It is important for parents to ask for information from each private college about the various merit...
BRIAN GREENBERG It is important for parents to ask for information from each private college about the various merit...
BRIAN C. GREENBERG The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which h...
HENRY LOUIS There are always jokes, and that's the best part of it. In order to become a team, you have to get t...
BERTRAND BERRY It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about i...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise ...
HAROLD J. SEYMOUR Getting into a bidding war with J&J is bad enough. But getting into a cash-throwing contest with J&J...
CAROL LEVENSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Heredity is nothing, but stored environment.
LUTHER BURBANK Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.
KATHERINE RYAN It's about family, and sticking up for each other and being there for each other. That's what we wan...
ANDY GUGLIEMINI Each of these parents has felt a calling to help other families. It has become a driving point in th...
BRAD DENNIS What you say about me is your illusions, even me still wondering who I am.?!
HAIFA SANAD All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result o...
ELINOR SMITH Remember: it is better to talk to each other than talk about each other. Knowledge IS key.
MARIE MUHAMMAD I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those...
JENNIFER PAYNTER There's really not a great understanding right now about what appeals to parents and kids. It's a ma...
MARINA AMOROSO But the state's concern should be about the other 5 percent. We have no information about what kind ...
DAVID PLANK All of us, in words that contradict each other, express at bottom the same exalted impulse. What set...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an...
J.K. ROWLING My refusal to remove the book from the library was backed by a majority of the Board of Governors. I...
J.K. ROWLING ...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whethe...
ROBERT WHITAKER Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson's forte. In her novels, &#...
STACEY D'ERASMO This isn't about comparing how sick we are: it is about helping each other do the best we can with w...
DAYLE ANN A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
FRED G. GOSMAN Topics... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics... are what men ta...
PATRICIA GAFFNEY We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ...
C. JOYBELL C. J&J is flexing its muscles. That's why J&J has come back so aggressively.
BRUCE NUDELL It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you ...
SHANNON L. ALDER The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE Theroretically, I think W&J is better than it was last year. I know all about their receivers and ot...
DON MONTGOMERY How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it thr...
E. STANLEY JONES The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're ...
ANDREW SHUE What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO What impressed me about Peter is that although he was a poet himself, he reviewed poetry for the lov...
IRENE CLURMAN Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in...
RAINBOW ROWELL I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
ISAAC ASIMOV Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to a...
VAN WYCK BROOKS Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ...
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand.
CHARLES L. BREWER Science is great for us. But for someone who sees the humans for more than one million years, scienc...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
JAMES MARK BALDWIN Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting e...
PAUL FEIG What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great cal...
GEORGE ELIOT What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great c...
GEORGE ELIOT It may take years for every plant to grow back after a bomb fall... but it could take a minute to ch...
VICTOR WERNET My take is that J&J would still like to do the deal but that Guidant is unwilling to negotiate the p...
PATRICK KASER A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfini...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The irony is, J&J could have had this company for $76 a share.
THOMAS GUNDERSON Harvard in some ways is a more difficult place to be the president of because it is so large, with s...
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LAURENCE OVERMIRE Look into the world
LAURENCE STERNE Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he know...
LAURENCE LEE Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners
LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
LAURENCE STERNE We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
LAURENCE STERNE For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
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