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• Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

  William Lilly

  Talking, Years, Age

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.17

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• Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

  Mary Astell

  Infancy Is, Want, Advantage

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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• In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

  Jack Kingston

  Leader, Democracy, Ethiopia

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• The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Mind, Periods, Primitive

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

  Thomas Jane

  Couple, Years, Careers

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 20, 2004.

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• We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Infancy Is, Childhood, Action

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• We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

  R. D. Laing

  Infancy Is, Trance, Posts

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• I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

  Tina Weymouth

  Ideas, People, Starting Over

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• Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

  Adam Clarke

  Mean, Men, Infancy Is

  Adam Clarke, Mrs. Richard Smith (1833). “An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age”, p.18

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• A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Years, Infancy Is

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• Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

  Karl Marx

  War, Hero, Debt

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• Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Beautiful, Work, Home

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• Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Eras, Worship

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• Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.

  Paul Kurtz

  Independent, Opportunity, Destiny

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• Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Sight, Sins Not

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2006). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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• The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

  Mason Cooley

  Sound, Littles, Joyous

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• Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the one whose four ground-rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the motions to the universe.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Teaching, School, Taught Us

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• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  William H. Gass

  Sleep, Issues, Wish

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• We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Spring, Cutting, Air

  '19 December 1835'

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• In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.

  Philippe Aries

  Children, Games, Play

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

  Andrew Linzey

  Animal, Temples, Theology

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• Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Powerful, Maturity, Empires

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• Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.187, Psychology Press

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• I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face. It is still in its infancy, still drfiting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate which leaves the old gene panting far behind.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Soup, Faces

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.

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• We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, People, Apathy

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