Quotes with adoption

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• A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

  ― Branch Rickey
  American baseball player (1881 - )
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• I was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.

  ― Buffy Sainte-Marie
  Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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• Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.

  ― Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
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• Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

  ― Caroline Leavitt
  American novelist
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• The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.

  ― Bhagat Singh
  Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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• The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

  ― Bruce Lipton
  American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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• Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

  ― Bruce Willis
  American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  ― Caleb Cushing
  American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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• Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

  ― Aaron Hill
  English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• entertainment
• revolutionary
• pigmentation
• guaranteeing
• traumatizing
• constitution

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