I spent most of my adult life trying to get as far away from my folks as possible. — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
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All my adult life, I have lived with Labour lies about tax cuts. Their cry is always the same. Tax cuts are… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
“Instead of writing down what you’re going to do (chances are you’ve been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
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When I started out doing comedy, I was still in college and was working day jobs. I taught preschool for a few… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
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Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
RIE emphasizes the benefits of infants spending peaceful, uninterrupted time following their biological rhythms of falling asleep when sleepy and eating when… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
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Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
“It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed… — Danielle Wood Copy Share Image
“Also: people pretended not to want what they wanted. Pretending tried to hide the will. That was the secret of adult life,… — Kevin Canty Copy Share Image
I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
“Some sense that to repress feelings of their childhood is to poison the very well-springs of life; they know that though repression… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
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I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding. — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
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For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount. — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
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