Stan: Dad, you like to drink. So have a drink once in a while. Have two. If you devote your whole life to completely avoiding something you like, then that thing still controls your life and you've never learned any discipline at all.

Randy: But, maybe...I'm just the kind of person who needs to have it all or nothing.

Stan: All or nothing is easy. But learning to drink a little bit, responsibly, that's a discipline. Discipline comes from within.”

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