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I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

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Robert Winston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 15
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I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.
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There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
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Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.
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Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
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Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.
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By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.
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My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.
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That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.
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