Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
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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. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
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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.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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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.
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Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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