Sydney Harris: We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

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Sydney J. Harris (14 September 1917 - 8 December 1986) was an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and later the Chicago Sun-Times. His column, "Strictly Personal", was syndicated in many newspapers throughout the United States and Canada

"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'"

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