When I was a boy I used to do ...

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
 Sam Levenson

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
 Sam Levenson
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
 Sam Levenson
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
 Sam Levenson
When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.
 Sam Levenson
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
 Sam Levenson