"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger."
-Bill Cosby
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"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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"I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior."
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"Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy."
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"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice."
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"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet."
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"I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal."
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