Quotes with child-like

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  • Gloria Steinem Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Abigail Adams Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Marquis de Sade Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • John Keats Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Camille Paglia Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Byron Howard Ariel got me into animation. She was the first Disney heroine that really felt alive. She felt like a real young woman.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Byron Nelson Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • René Daumal Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Alberto Giacometti Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Ban Ki-moon As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Buddy Hackett As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Augusten Burroughs As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Daniel S. Loeb As a friend said to me, ‘Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.’
    Daniel S. Loeb
    American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist (1961 - )
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