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• You first parents of the human race... who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you not have done for a truffled turkey?
  -- Brillat-Savari...
• Are you a parent? Do you sometimes find yourself unsure as to what to say in those awkward situations?
  Worry no more... Good children always obey. Quit acting so childish....
• EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
  "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote....
• If not for us, you might have done something constructive.
• Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine.
  You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star....
• Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine.
  You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star....
• What is well done is done soon enough.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, First Day...
• If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are for yourself, then what are you?
  If not now, when?...
• It would seem that you have actually improved on yourself, Data.
  Is that not the goal of every parent? -- Picard & Data, "The Offspring," stardate 43657.0....