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When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.

— Jeffrey Kluger

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

— Mary Docter

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

— Eric Heiden

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

— Karen Thompson Walker

Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is just to be a nice person - to be generous, kind and happy. I hope it comes off when I work and meet people.

— Amber Le Bon

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.

— J. B. Smoove

My parents are so amazing; they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

— Naomi Scott

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

— James Salter

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

— Bob Barr

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

— Jane Seymour

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

— Martha Reeves

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