A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

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I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right. - Adam Sandler

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Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. ― Françoise Sagan

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It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. — Mark Cuban

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The creative adult is the child who has survived.

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If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. — Nelson Mandela

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When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

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