#bse

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly. ↗

— Mark Strong

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#accordingly #around #baby #bad #behavior

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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#been #nuts #obsessive #shakers

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

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#about #children #desire #discrimination #excite