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| Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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| Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light, or |
| Abraham Maslow |
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| Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. |
| H. G. Wells |
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| I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. |
| Helen Keller |
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| I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. |
| Fran Lebowitz |
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| I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults |
| Gore Vidal |
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| If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business |
| Ronald Reagan |
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| If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. |
| Walt Disney |
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| Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. |
| Lily Tomlin |
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| Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards |
| George Orwell |
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| Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in |
| Mark Twain |
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| The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. |
| Niccolo Machiavelli |
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| To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that. |
| Walt Disney |
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| Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. |
| Gore Vidal |
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| What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. |
| Walt Disney |
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