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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
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To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
I worked in a paper mill all my adult life and there were a lot of funny guys there. So you pick… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just… — Molly Bloom Copy Share Image
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More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I've spent much of my adult life trying to decode the… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
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I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavor to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To… — Hans Bellmer Copy Share Image
I am comfortable being gay. Most of my adult life, it's never been a secret. I knew I was gay when I… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I have been an emotional hit-and- run driver--that is, a reporter. I made people like me,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from… — David Foster Copy Share Image
The shape of life, not just family life, but adult life, has completely transformed from the way it was before the Internet… — CMAT Copy Share Image
I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
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But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
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