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"ref": "2005, Bob Wallace, Flying with Scissors: A Different Perspective on Childhood, page 48",
"text": "Maybe instead of overprotecting, we should allow Katie, and the thousands other childhood cancer survivors like her, to play in traffic, run with scissors, and walk blindfolded with suckers sticking out of their mouths! Right?",
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"ref": "2008, Andrew Gideon, Harrier Hawks Fly High, page 6",
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"ref": "2010, Roger Allen Cook, Into Deeper Grace, Xulon Press, page 148",
"text": "I wonder if God has made a note on your record and mine that says; “he tends to run with scissors, but I've got him covered by My grace”. Perhaps your scissors thing is; getting too busy to spend time in the world, or getting too interested in the business of others, or perhaps allowing the world to set up wrong priorities in your life.",
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"ref": "2012, Scott Gesinger, Pleiades Rising, page 88",
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"ref": "2011, Ron Henchel, The Guilty Mirror, page 81",
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