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Advertising
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
-Bill Cosby
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Advice
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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
-Bill Cosby
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A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
-Bill Cosby
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Age
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I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says,
-Bill Cosby
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Children
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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
-Bill Cosby
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Family
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
-Bill Cosby
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Father
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Father...knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
-Bill Cosby
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If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
-Bill Cosby
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Humor
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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it.
-Bill Cosby
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Marriage
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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
-Bill Cosby
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Men & Women
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Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.
-Bill Cosby, Love and Marriage, 1989
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Music
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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
-Bill Cosby
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Parenting
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Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
-Bill Cosby
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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.
-Bill Cosby
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Quality
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There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
-Bill Cosby
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Racism
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I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
-Bill Cosby
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Success & Failure
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
-Bill Cosby
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Books by and about Bill Cosby