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• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized to your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
  -- Lady Bird Johnso...
• Children Learn What They Live!
• A child is a person who will try mightily to live up to whatever expectations you have of them, when you tell them what you expect.
• Edna: Seymour, the teachers are fed up. You have to start putting money back into the school.
  You've cut back on everything: salaries, supplies, the food -- [takes a bite] -- I don't care what you say, I can taste the newspaper....
• When the bird and the bird book disagree, believe the bird.
• If you don't want your children to hear what you are sayin, pretend you're talking to them.
  -- Covert Conversation Code...
• Moe: Hey, uh, I got an idea: we can play a game to pass the time.
  Er, I'll make the sound of a barnyard animal, and, er, you all try to guess what it is....
• Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash.
  -- Emo Phillip...
• I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.
  -- Stephen Wrigh...