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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. -- Isaac Asimov
At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour. -- Thom Yorke
The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds. -- Joseph Lancaster
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. -- Horace Walpole
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. -- Nathan Deal
My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association. -- Abby Wambach
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! -- Daniel Dennett
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around. -- Louis Sachar
I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy. -- Jaden Smith
Yes, there is a ton of information on the Web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile. -- John Updike
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad. -- Lewis Thomas
I'm listening to early Cash Money, I'm listening to Juvenile, I'm listening to Waka Flocka, I'm listening to Lil B, I'm listening to Brandy, Kanye - that's my home playlist. -- Theophilus London
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works. -- Taylor Swift
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does. -- Eric Hoffer
I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it. -- Karen Armstrong
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. -- Dirk Kempthorne
Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year. -- Elijah Cummings
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God -- Smokey Robinson
But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day. -- Dan Lipinski
I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me. -- Jimmy Carr
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. -- Leni Riefenstahl
If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible. -- Ryan Gosling
I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative -- David Cross
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. -- Sonia Sotomayor
California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors in their schools and giving the juvenile justice system the resources it needs. -- Gil Garcetti
The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way. -- Paul Mazursky
John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile. -- Jonah Goldberg
Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little. -- Johnny Knoxville
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun. -- George W. Bush
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. -- Arlen Specter
When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile. -- Mark Hamill
I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. -- Leni Riefenstahl
Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place. -- Jacque Fresco
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall. -- Anne Lamott
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly. -- Maya Angelou
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Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. -- Terry Pratchett
And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society. -- Walter Dean Myers
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law. -- LZ Granderson
I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child. -- Amy Robach
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. -- Bob Feller
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose. -- William Godwin
I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated. -- Lemon Andersen
As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that. -- Tino Sehgal
I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes. -- Nicole Ari Parker
If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer. -- Brandon Marshall
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. -- C. S. Lewis
Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents. -- Ray Bradbury
She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase. -- Stephenie Meyer
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. -- Maureen Dowd
I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me. -- John Waters
We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile. -- Pope Francis
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You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. -- Mark Twain
It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty. -- Anthony Kennedy
Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish -- Lauren Oliver
I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh. -- Andrew Rannells
I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass. -- Elton John
I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care. -- Cory Booker
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. -- Miles Teller
There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents. -- J. Edgar Hoover
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. -- Ruben Hinojosa
It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile. -- Maggie Shayne
The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion. -- B. F. Skinner
I was never a juvenile lead or a romantic hero, and I didn't come into my own as an actor until I was 40. -- Roger Lloyd-Pack
Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts. -- Lisa Bonet
Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people. -- Zig Ziglar
I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist. -- Yukmouth
It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they? -- Julia Quinn
I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like. -- Gail Carriger
I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope. -- Adam Rapp
You should have worn a baby pink t-shirt on which a child sucks his thumb. That would have given you the required juvenile look. ~ Subhangi Tyagi -- Kirtida Gautam
The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary. -- Bobby Scott
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it. -- Arthur Koestler
If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have. -- Abraham Zaleznik
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They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents. -- Sherman Alexie
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole. -- Clifton Fadiman
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence. -- Lisa Lutz
The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people. -- Joe Bob Briggs
In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, venereal disease, teen pregnancy, and abortion. -- Gregory S. Paul
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life. -- Norman Mailer
My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries. -- Steve Olson
My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading. -- Hill Harper
The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers. -- Charles Dickens
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God. -- Smokey Robinson
It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige. -- William Devane
My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading. -- Hill Harper
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes. -- Elvis Presley
But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Badass is a juvenile aspiration. -- Gabrielle Hamilton

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