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«Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.»
«Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
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«No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.»
«Don't trust the referee, set your own goals»
«I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.»
«You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.»
«Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
History,
Violence
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«You can't direct a Laughton picture. The best you can hope for is to referee.»
«Yes, honey...Just squeeze your rage up into a bitter little ball and release it at an appropriate time, like that day I hit the referee with the whiskey bottle.»
Author: Dan Castellaneta
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
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