"The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen……" — Adora Svitak
"The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking."
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49 Quotes by Adora Svitak
Adora Svitak has 49 quotes on this site.
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In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
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There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.'…
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If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.
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All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much…
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By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV…
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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children…
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Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot…
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Our words can have power that we don’t think we have in everyday life. Anyone can make a difference!
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The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.
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No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can…
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To show that you truly care, you listen.
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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
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More Abolish Quotes
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
— Brigitte Bardot
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
— Tony Campolo
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All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
— Elinor Glyn
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
— James Madison
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
— Bertrand Russell
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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