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"Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time." »Robert A. Heinlein
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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 superior man is satisfied and composed the mean man is always full of distress." »Confucius
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"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike." »Horace Mann
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"The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"The man who listens not to the words of affectionate friends will give joy in the time of distress to his enemies." »The Hitopadesa
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"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." »Thomas Paine
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"You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her." »Winston Churchill
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"Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched." »Thomas Fuller
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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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"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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"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance." »Kahlil Gibran
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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 US government alone cannot get its economy out of the crisis. It appears to me that the current policy makers are suffering from the gambler's syndrome. They keep spending more money hoping that they will eventually win. More debt spending is a receipt for bankruptcy. Real economic growth comes from government and private sector investments, not from massive debt spending followed by tax increases or currency devaluation." »Med Jones
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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 it 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 its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence." »Norman Podhoretz
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." »Thomas Paine
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