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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the… — Anton Chekhov
East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66… — Jonathan Kozol
My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I… — Elizabeth Gilbert
You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the… — Propertius
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away… — Edwin Land
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but… — Theodore Dalrymple
There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would… — Robert Foster Bennett
Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually… — Donald Knuth
Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication. — John Mortimer
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1… — Buzz Bissinger
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the… — Robert Genn
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him. — William Osler
To be premature is to be perfect — Oscar Wilde
Utopias are often just premature truths. — Alphonse de Lamartine
In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just… — John Kenneth Galbraith
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour,… — Stephen Leacock
Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year. — Walter Willett
God screens us evermore from premature ideas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes… — Solomon Ortiz
Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a… — Maurice Sendak
Anybody who knows about having a premature baby, it's horrific. He was part of a twin, and I lost his sister. — Sherri Shepherd
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I… — Sachin Tendulkar
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations… — Peter Ustinov
And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death… — John Irving

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