"My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish."

-- Flip Wilson

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“Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?”
“The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.”

Source : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.210, Clear Press Ltd
“Character is what a man is in the dark.”
“The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.”

Source : Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.162, Cambridge University Press
“The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.”
“If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.”
“I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.”
“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

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