"The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life."
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"A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed."
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"As ephemeral as our footprints were in the sand along the river, so also were those moments of childhood caught in the photographs. And so will be our family itself, our marriage, the children who enriched it and the love that has carried us through so much. All this will be gone. What we hope will remain are these pictures, telling our brief story."
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"I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby."
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"Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?"
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"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."
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"There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete."
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"In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
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"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."
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"How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature."
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"At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future."
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"It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like."
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"The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown."
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"We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood."
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"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
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"When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up."
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"O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower."
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"No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want."
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"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality."
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"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
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