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Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

George Will

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Vor kurzem - vor etwa fünf Minuten, im Vergleich zu der langjährigen menschlichen Komödie - haben sich die Eltern zur Ablenkung begeben, indem sie die Vorstellung, dass "der Zweig geneigt ist, die Neigung des Baums zu ernst nimmt", zu ernst nimmt.

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