Ego, hatred and childhood experiences are not something that can be turned into statistics.

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They drew on his childhood experiences growing up in an upper-class family in the Midwest before World War II.

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My gun perceptions, probably much like yours, were shaped by early childhood experiences.

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"It all started with us talking about childhood experiences of family holidays and we took that concept to its extreme, " said Lowe.

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Or some underlying issue, partly explained by genetics and early childhood experiences, could be a precursor to both poor sleep and the mental disorders.

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His sympathies, born of his childhood experiences among the peasantry in northern France during the first world war, were always with the underdog, and he did not spare the colonial authorities for their role in Africa's misfortunes.

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Often a particularly severe case can be traced to early childhood social experiences, she says, even perhaps the initial entry into a nursery.

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For others, activity in those brain areas has been subdued by some awful experiences in childhood.

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In his games, Miyamoto has always tried to re-create his childhood wonderment, if not always the actual experiences that gave rise to it, since the experiences themselves may be harder to come by in a paved and partitioned world.

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