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  • One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
  • My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

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  • John Adams A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Simone Weil At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Mrs. Patrick Campbell From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word ''stammer.'' I can't say it myself.
    Mrs. Patrick Campbell
    English stage actress (1865 - 1940)
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  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Arthur C. Nielsen Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us.
    Arthur C. Nielsen
    American businessman and engineer (1897 - 1980)
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  • Erik H. Erikson Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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  • James Thurber Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bryce Courtenay I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ban Ki-moon It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Brendan Myers My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Billy Corgan My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean Giraudoux There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people...
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Bob Rae We spend the vast bulk of money in the health, welfare, and education systems in the later years of life. Yet it is in the earliest years that life chances are moulded and set.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Six, The Second Question: Health, Education, a
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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