Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
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You can't really argue with a guy who says that. But you also have to play the tape back where he looks at the man in charge and says, 'You're doing a heck of a job,' and neither one of them knows what they're talking about.Bill Cosby
When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.
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She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.
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Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.
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Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. Think about your father He doesn't know where anything is. You ask him to do something, he messes it up and your mother sends you go down and see what your father's doing before he blows up the house. He's a genius at work because he doesn't want to do it, and he knows someone will be coming soon to stop him.
Bill Cosby
And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember With fulfillment comes responsibility.
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