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• Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.

  Bob Ney

  Country, Sex, Moving

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• Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Shrinks

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Growing Up, Adults

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Anita E. Woolfolk "Educational Psychology" (p. 212), 1980.

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

  James M. Barrie

  Strength, Children, Passion

  "The Little Minister". Book by James Matthew Barrie, p. 143, 1891.

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• The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Relationship, Lonely

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• I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Mothers Day, Mom, Growing Up

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• Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

  Paul Simon

  Wisdom, Dope, Forever

  "Raffi: Advocate for Children, Earth and Music". Interview with Marilyn Price-Mitchell, www.rootsofaction.com. August 2014.

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

  Francis Beaumont

  Growing Up, Men, Degrees

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”

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• Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Use, Opposition

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• Men," said Mr. Kyle, "people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love--the deepest kind of love.

  Wilson Rawls

  Loyalty, Dog, Children

  Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.214, Laurel Leaf

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• Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Love, Book, Communication

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1971). “The Little Package: Pages on Literature and Landscape from a Traveling Bookman's Life”, Books for Libraries

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• Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Inspirational, Strength, Encouraging

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• Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

  Richard Bach

  Family, Growing Up, Criminal Mind

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• Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

  Alice Miller

  Education, Children, Learning

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.101, Macmillan

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, Growing Up, Kids

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• Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 11, 2017

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• It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Dying, Literature

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.937, Wordsworth Editions

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• We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

  Bryan White

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Libraries are not made, they grow.

  Augustine Birrell

  History, Library, Librarian

  Augustine Birrell (1899). “Collected Essays”

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