My dad always used to tell me __________________. My dad never told me anything. He had nothing to say, and even less to say to me.

“A brick could be used to build a house—or destroy it, one window at a time.
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“A brick could be slid on a wood floor, like a rolling bowling ball, in an attem…”

“Be like a sparrow aspiring to be an ostrich, and I’ll be like a cowboy with no …”

“Are you an Is there? or a There isn’t! kind of person? I’m more of an Is there …”