There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'


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Lots of countries, like Israel, live with terrorism every day, and it doesn't impact their integ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
At the time of the Civil War, there were six democracies in the face of the planet. Today, there'...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The prob...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I think global warming is the gravest threat. With global warming, it's the product of a war bet...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was in many American vaccines until 2003. It was rem...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I'm very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of l...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
PBS was not a left-wing ideology. I mean, Air America was, but PBS was not. But anybody who tells th...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
Democracy is about institutions: it's about having things like schools and judiciary and the For...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute t...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, b...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
I obtained a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Fellowship and entered the graduate program in History at the U...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.
The observation that money changes induce output changes in the same direction receives confirmation...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.
Monetary contractions are attractive as the key shocks in the 1929-1933 years, and in other severe d...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.
From the beginnings of modern monetary theory, in David Hume's marvelous essays of 1752, 'Of...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.
It is more important to be of service than successful.
ROBERT KENNEDY JR.
I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.
There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.
ROBERT PRECHTER JR.
There hasn't been a nuclear plant proposed since 1973 ... and the reason for it is because it is jus...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.
The central predictions of the quantity theory are that, in the long run, money growth should be neu...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR.
It's no coincidence that three of the top five stock option traders in a recent trading contest were...
ROBERT PRECHTER JR.
I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb...
ROBERT EDISON FULTON JR.
Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine a...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
There is no question that Australia's most dramatic assault on the world market has been with it...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.
We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.
We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communica...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliabl...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which Cali...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is be...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
Wine writers have been around for almost as long as there has been wine, but in the past, generally ...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same cours...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.
My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television c...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
Back in 1990, there were fewer than 20 wineries in and around Paso Robles, a farming community midwa...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finess...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national gove...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and pr...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.
When I started in 1978, the greatest wine in Spain, Vega Sicilia, wasn't even imported to the Un...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are some...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progre...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.
When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everyth...
ROBERT M. PARKER, JR.
For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this mo...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR.