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"If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well." »Black Hawk
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"To be an adult is to be alone." »Jean Rostand
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"What Washington needs is adult supervision." »Barack Obama
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"the world is not enough for me as an adult but i wonder what i was like in the womb." »Abdirisak Ishak
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong." »Thomas Szasz
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"Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." »Margaret Atwood
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"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult." »Sir Laurence Olivier
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"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race." »H. G. Wells
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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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"He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain." »John Moore
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"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible." »Jean Kerr
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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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"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." »John Updike
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"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world." »Jean Baudrillard
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"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." »Rachel Carson
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"By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun." »Katherine Mansfield
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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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"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." »Norman Podhoretz
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"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." »Norman Podhoretz
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"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise." »Alden Nowlan
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"Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us." »Edith Ann
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"Each child is an evil. Each adult is an self-control or be controlled evil." »Woody Haldrugold
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"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision." »Blake Clark
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"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does." »Lewis Blaine Hershey
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"Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life." »Margaret Lowenfeld
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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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"For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love." »Craig Claiborne
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