| My issue is that he's compensating for his own missed childhood by appropriating other people's childhoods. |
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| One soldier managed to successfully execute the somersault maneuver that most people are familiar with from their childhoods. |
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| It seems that many people living in the West still live in the simple, polarized westerns of their simpler, more idealized childhoods. |
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| Searching for proof of institutional religion in two artists who no longer practiced the faiths of their childhoods is an inexact science. |
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| Both her parents had had interrupted childhoods, and truncated educations, and were determined their children should not suffer the same fate. |
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| With increasingly weighty school bags and heavy workload after school, very little free time is left for the kids to enjoy their childhoods. |
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| I can tell you quite frankly that the stuff from our childhoods is not to be blamed on us. |
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| Compared with some of my friends' childhoods, mine was paradise. |
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| The story is told through three sisters who still carry the effects, wounds and insecurities of a broken home and childhoods that lacked any real parenting. |
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| In an ideal world we can fantasise about replicating the idyllic childhoods of the past, but the horrible truth is that we can no longer afford that fantasy. |
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| Look at eminences in the past, and what stands out in their childhoods is an animus toward school, a tolerance for solitude and families with lots of books. |
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| Restore to them their stolen childhoods, their birthright, which is a taste of heaven. |
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| Who wants to read about happy childhoods, unambivalent success, depthless surfaces? |
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| Girls and women show little support for a practice that robs girls of their childhoods and catapults them into womanhood. |
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| All three of our sample can claim, in mitigation, that they had rough childhoods. |
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| We recognize that many social forces push people toward crime: poverty, poor education, unstable childhoods, social isolation and many more. |
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| We will raise a generation of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and youth who do not have to recover from their childhoods. |
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| Outside forces like the press and media could corrupt the young boy, and John wished his son to have the most normal of childhoods, in light of the circumstances. |
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| Too often, children see their childhoods drift into turmoil, their family and friends killed and their lives, health and well-being put at risk. |
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| Otherwise, they spend the remainder of their childhoods in fostering arrangements before transitioning to adulthood. |
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| And second, gender gaps can grow as girls reach adolescence, thereby reducing the gains already made for girls in their early childhoods. |
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| Since their childhoods they both have been believers of Judaism, but they have the thirst for the truth in their hearts. |
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| I am tempted to say that we suburban parents have it all wrong-with the tended lawns and groomed and protected childhoods we work so hard to provide. |
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| How many grown women, looking back on their childhoods, shudder to remember having pink forced upon them, along with dirndl skirts and Barbie dolls? |
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| Throughout the show, survivors of humdrum Midwestern childhoods blossom after they arrive in this great unsleeping metropolis. |
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| Many have left the religion of their childhoods because of such narrow and limiting attitudes. |
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| This was not a simple matter, because we heard from many children conceived through the new technologies who reported problems growing up, troubled childhoods, because of not knowing who their father, the donor, was. |
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| Their childhoods hinted at similarities, though. |
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| In other words, many of the most serious problems facing today's advanced industrialized nations have roots in the denial and deprivation that mark the childhoods of so many of their future citizens. |
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| By heck, they might think, I've heard about second childhoods but this is ridiculous. |
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| Oddie and Packham are not advocating a return to 1940s childhoods, but people are bound to make comparisons with the stern headmistress of the Enid Blyton school. |
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| Additionally, it says nothing about the many adults with similar childhoods who do not experience one of these syndromes. |
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| Mintz means to acknowledge a multitude of American childhoods and privilege none. |
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| Without focused attention, millions of children will remain trapped and forgotten in childhoods of neglect and abuse, with devastating consequences for their long-term well-being and the development of nations. |
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| Even when they did not share the same household, grandparents, uncles and aunts contributed to the care and discipline of children and it was not uncommon for children to spend parts of their childhoods with extended family. |
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| Serbian young people, whose childhoods were largely neglected during the period of conflict and isolation, continue to suffer the consequences today. |
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| I hope that we continue this debate and we have this hugely important conversation tonight about how the country is still failing in actually getting the fundamentals right so that people can have secure childhoods. |
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| If due to our own childhoods, we had a difficult time establishing healthy limits for ourselves, then we will have a difficult time setting limits regarding how we relate to our loved one with a mental illness. |
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| Morris was a caring father to his daughters, and years later they both recounted having idyllic childhoods. |
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| Narnia similarly has its roots in a paracosmic world created by C. S. Lewis and his brother during their childhoods. |
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| It grows in the bones of scuffling, isolated country childhoods. |
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| At this point, we could all write a tell-all about our tabloid childhoods and contrive an autobiographical performance about the pleasures of humiliation. |
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| Guzman said he hopes visitors who view his exhibit will leave with a better appreciation for children, many of whom are missing their own childhoods. |
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| All of us who worked on the show are sort of having second childhoods. |
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| Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth, Edited by Susan Boynton and Roe-Min Kok. |
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