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When a child hits a child, we call it aggression; when an adult hits an adult, it becomes assault. Anonymous notes that adults drift in a different boat from children, only meeting when needed. He also observes that adulthood brings fierce competition, disappointment, and a tendency to hide pleasure.

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Rehab is just being grounded for adults.

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Adults are only kids grown up

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Me in my adult days :)

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We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?

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I hate being around a bunch of drunk ass adults.

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It's funny how adults complain about our generation, yet they raised it.

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Welcome to the world filled with fun and occupied with adults. May all your dreams and fantasies come true. Happy 18th Birthday!

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Imagination They say adults have no imagination. Not true. Just instead of dinosaurs and spaceships, they imagine silence and the new babysitter…

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Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children.

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Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something… My theory is a children's book... can be just for…

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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.

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Kids don't talk like adults, but kids on the spectrum don't necessarily fall into the same patterns of speaking or have the…

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One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have…

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I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season',…

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As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the…

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the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated…

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Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of…

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Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children…

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It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about…

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A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which…

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When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an…

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My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I…

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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…

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One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work.…

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If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we…

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Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter,…

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As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is,…

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“The “non-profit” institution neither supplies goods or services nor controls. Its “product” is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation.…

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A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,…

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Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long…

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We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing…

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As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought…

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If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let…

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“Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you.”

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The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

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We're all grown ups now, if you have a problem with someone you sort it out like adults.

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“You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do…

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A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

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Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a…

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I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.

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The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much.

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