Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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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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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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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste.. Years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just.. Take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
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Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
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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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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
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Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
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Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
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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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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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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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Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
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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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Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
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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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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
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Adults are obsolete children.
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