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• The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
  -- Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938)...
• The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
  -- Clarence Darrow...
• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
  -- Adlai Stevenso...
• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
  John Stuart Mill...
• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
• It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
  -- Feodor Dostoyevski, "The Possessed...
• You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half, you give what's left.
  -- Yogi Berra...