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When some one is consciously endeavoring to make both outer influences and the inner working of the life the best possible, it is called nurture.
The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
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It can also be impeded in the usual ways, and its deliverances can perhaps sometimes be extinguished by the wrong kind of nurture.
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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A boy may be truly enough a chip of the old block, but how far he shows himself such depends on "nurture."
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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A modification is a definite change in the individual body, due to some change in "nurture."
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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