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His father
«The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.»
Author: Bern Williams
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brag, bragging, brags, bristle, bristles, bristling, bristling with, discovers, dishonest, grandfather, grandfathers, great grandfather, His father, pirate, pirates
«No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.»
Author: Margaret Turnbull
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
affair, entirely, Father, His father, his mother, man of affairs, responsible, responsible for
«Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.»
Author: Saul Alinsky
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corrupting, corruption, go to bed, His father, his mother, Politics of, The Politics
«President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Arnold, bush, conservatives, credibility, His father, Karl, Karl Rove, liberal, President Bush, Republicans, rove, Roves, roving, supporting
«I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.»
Author: James Joyce
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at will, Coming of age, His father, legal, legal fiction, of age, paternity
«If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also he cannot be my disciple»
«Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.»
«If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: / Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; / And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.»
Author: Bible
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chasten, chastened, chastening, chastens, drunkard, elders, gate, glutton, gluttons, hearken, hearkening, hearkens, His father, hold on, rebellious, stubborn
«They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?' Only from»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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brothers, butterflies, collect, collects, demand, elder brother, Father, games, His father, sound, weigh, weighing
«His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented...Jay Gatsby...and to this conception he was faithful to the end.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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conception, farm, His father, jay, Jay Gatsby, Long Island, platonic, shiftless, Son of God, sprang, spring beauty, The Service, unsuccessful