A true legacy can be recognized by the fact that it will be left standing when everything else that has attacked it is not. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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watching his son in quick pulses of attention. ― Thomas Pynchon

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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes._ Andrew Carnegie

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The measure of a man is determined by the distance between his knees and the ground. The less the distance, the greater the man. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets. ― Raymond Chandler

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I blinked. Because even though my dad never, ever complained about being a young dad, I always wondered about his regrets. How his need to keep abandoned, sad things might apply to me, too. ― Maurene Goo

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Some men became fathers mainly to show that they are not gay. Some, only to hide the fact that they are. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Sons are born to make their fathers better men.― Mekael Shane

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The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

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