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Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.


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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN Either they have left on their own or they were suspended (from the college).
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ROSS R. MASON LOVE is only-(L)ive (O)ut positi(VE) or (L)ots (O)f +VE
ANUJ SOMANY Plastic keychain anchors like these can break too easily. It's better to use either heavy straps or ...
DON MAYS I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a goo...
DAVE BARRY 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 Our politicians, by their words and policies, either expand or contract the frontiers of freedom. We...
SCOTT L. VANATTER An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in ord...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Sometimes children are ready to go before their parents are ready to send them.
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XAVIER BECERRA I went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties.
DANIELLE FISHEL The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?

L: Damn you, Kira...
TSUGUMI OHBA Love is spelt C-O-L-O-R.
And
Color is spelt L-O-V-E.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
L. WOLFE GILBERT If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government ...
L. RON HUBBARD I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. RON HUBBARD A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in sc...
L. RON HUBBARD A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. RON HUBBARD One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I ...
L. RON HUBBARD A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of o...
L. RON HUBBARD I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went...
L. RON HUBBARD When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by d...
L. RON HUBBARD There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w...
L. RON HUBBARD