“ The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. ”
- Art Linkletter- Copy
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“ Let a man turn to his own childhood — no further — if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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“ Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ”
- Richard H. Dana- Copy
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“ Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. ”
- Wendell Phillips- Copy
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
- Vera Brittain- Copy
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“ A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. ”
- Brian Aldiss- Copy
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“ Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ I feel like my career is in its infancy. My father once told me that I had a baby face - my father is a director. ”
- Dean Cain- Copy
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“ The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ”
- Ralph W. Sockman- Copy
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“ The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. ”
- Lord Acton- Copy
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“ When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood. ”
- Sam Ewing- Copy
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“ Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. ”
- Marilyn Monroe- Copy
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“ Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ”
- Anna Jameson- Copy
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“ It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress. ”
- Raymond B. Fosdick- Copy
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“ The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ”
- Abba Eban- Copy
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“ Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. ”
- Saul Landau- Copy
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“ O'Neill is in the minority. They take it as a deduction. If it isn't compensation, then what is it? ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004. ”
- John Fund- Copy
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“ The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today. ”
- Thomas Gray- Copy
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“ With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation. ”
- Mary Oliver- Copy
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