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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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"It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex..." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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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"The female of the species is more deadly than the male." »Rudyard Kipling
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"To be an adult is to be alone." »Jean Rostand
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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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"What Washington needs is adult supervision." »Barack Obama
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"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things." »Jilly Cooper
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"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals." »Brigid Brophy
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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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"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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"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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"There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together." »Sir V Pritchett
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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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"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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"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football." »Fran Lebowitz
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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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"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible." »Jean Kerr
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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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"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead." »James Thurber
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"Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead" »James Thurber
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"Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals." »Will Rogers
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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 realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom
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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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