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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
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All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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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.
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As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
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Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
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Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
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Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
Source: The Stories of David Leavitt (2013) 4
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