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Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence. -- Thomas Paine
Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. -- Michael Sandel
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. -- Thomas Paine
I feel I lost my innocence to cancer. -- Delta Goodrem
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. -- Graham Greene
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music. -- Brian Wilson
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it. -- Jewel
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days. -- Danielle de Niese
Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe. -- Bob Taft
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. -- Graham Greene
I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost. -- Bruce Springsteen
Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists lost their innocence in 2009 when we started using malware as an offensive attack weapon. -- Mikko Hypponen
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I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. -- George Will
When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence. -- Damien Rice
I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing - a beautiful, evil thing. -- Nick Cave
To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. -- Malcolm Turnbull
Innocence could be lost more than once after all. -- Selena Kitt
I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex. -- Jennifer Elisabeth
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost. -- John Milton
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. -- Germaine Greer
His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost. -- James Joyce
I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way. -- Robert Plant
I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could. -- Pedro
For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever. -- Susan Hill
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third. -- John Marsden
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something that is lost. -- Quentin S. Crisp
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made. -- Donald A. Norman

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