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childhood wish fairy-tale
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well. C. S. Lewis
childhood malls
There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood. Dave Foley
childhood want bottles
If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood. Dave Barry
childhood looks happy-childhood
I look back to a happy childhood. Catherine Helen Spence
childhood fickle lovers
Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
childhood young
Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand. Jane Wagner
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood feelings would-be
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
disease idleness mind rust worse
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself. Samuel Smiles
diseases human large nobody paying stunning trivial
The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it. Thomas Pogge
diseases early life lose loved people role
When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.' Elizabeth Holmes
disease good major market states united
If you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the only disease for which we have really good drugs is HIV. And it's very simple: because there's a market in the United States and Europe. Jim Yong Kim
disease homicide diets
Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it. Jamie Oliver
disease herbs
A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs. Chinua Achebe
disease orderliness dirt
We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time. Cheryl Mendelson
disease flooding hope none pandemic planning preparing
We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready. Ellen Anderson
disease fool modern-life
My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them. Bruce Barton
literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.