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On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day. ↗

#children #cities #day #november #one day

My daughter is a preschooler but I have only known her for a while. She is adopted. ↗

China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#change #china #climate #climate change #coverage

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#boston #childless #couple #elderly #father

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby. ↗

— Gary Numan

#after #airline #any #baby #blood

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. ↗

— Hyman Rickover

#adopted #automatically #courageous #driven #good

Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#approach #because #etc #go #him

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. ↗

— Steven Wright

#darwin #evolution #theory

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris. ↗

— Asia Argento

#french #go #i #live #paris

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#always #black #brother #considered #culture