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“It’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.”
― Alan Rickman

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“I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously”
― Alan Rickman

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“When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”
― John Wilmot

tags: aging, children, fatherhood, marriage, parenting, theory

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“It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.”
― Michael Chabon, Summerland

tags: baseball, fatherhood, summerland

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