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Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
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Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
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CHICAGO: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
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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 smells of perfume and brownies.
Source: The Stories of David Leavitt (2013) 4 -
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
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Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
Source: As quoted in Commentary: Pre-school Rankings by Susan Hoff KERA Public Newsroom (6 September 2007) -
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
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Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency.
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