"We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy."
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"It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
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"Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year."
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"They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard."
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"Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed."
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"Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone."
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"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought."
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"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."
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"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."
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"I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness."
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"We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it."
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"So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood."
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"I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster from childhood was trying to look like Kate Moss and plucking all my brows off."
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"Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential"
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"I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way."
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"I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did."
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"What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours."
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"Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!"
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"We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions."
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"I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me."
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