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Innocence Quotes
"It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent."
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"Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today."
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"Innocence has a grace which intelligence lacks!"
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"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
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"The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends."
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"In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play."
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"No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!"
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"I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff."
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"Become like a child - innocent, pure, spontaneous, playful."
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"The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?"
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"Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from."
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"Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong."
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"You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility."
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"It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile."
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"A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious."
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"Maybe it's okay to be a kid once in a while."
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"Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she somehow retreated into private life and lost her official status. Then, with elaborate care, I would tie a large blue satin ribbon round her head - with enormous difficulty and holding my breath, because tying a bow is no easy matter for a four-year-old. After which I would step back and exclaim in ecstasy: "Oh Nursie, you ARE beautiful!" At which she would smile and say in her gentle voice: "Am I, love?"
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"She might be the Archive, but she's still a kid, Kincaid."He frowned and looked at me. "So?""So? Kids like cute."He blinked at me. "Cute?""Come on."I led him downstairs.On the lower level of the Oceanarium there's an inner ring of exhibits, too, containing both penguins and--wait for it--sea otters.I mean, come on, sea otters. They open abalone with rocks while floating on their backs.How much cuter does it get than small, fuzzy, floating, playful tool users with big, soft brown eyes?"
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"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired."
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"Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour."
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"Babies are the buds of imagination that are ready to bloom with lights of love and affection."
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"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends."
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"Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles."
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"I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence."
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"The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe."
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"There's a bit of kitten in all of us."
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"Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly's wings assures me of a pure, innocent world."
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"The baby's beauty lies on its' pure-hearted."
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"Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone."
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"Who shows a child, just as they are? Who sets itin its constellation, and gives the measureof distance into its hand? Who makes a child's deathout of grey bread, that hardens, - or leaves itinside its round mouth like the coreof a shining apple? Killers areeasy to grasp. But this: death,the whole of death, before life,to hold it so softly, and not live in anger,cannot be expressed."
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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."
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