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“The responsibility of parents is to raise children who do not need parents”. –Bob Keeshan

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

“The sun don’t shine on the same dog’s ass all the time”. –Catfish Hunter

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success”. –Jim Backus

“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers”. –James Monroe

“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief””. –James Naismith

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it”. –James Allen

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

“I think that self-reliance is what makes you happy; not having to worry about anything or not depending on anybody besides yourself”. –Bradley Nowell

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity amongst you”. –James Larkin

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today”. –James Dean

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me”. –Jim Morrison

“How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? …I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it”. –Jim Valvano

“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own”. –James Otis

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home”. –James A. Michener

“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch”. –Ian Fleming

“If the American family has seemed in danger of disintegration, I believe and hope it will survive, and I think America will return to old values”. –James Cagney

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor”. –William James

“The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it”. –James E. Casey

“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”. –James Madison