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Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature...

—Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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Even adults refer to prehistoric mammals as dinosaurs.

—George Phillips

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When the game agency estimates there are only 10 adult male lions in the entire Black Hills, a hunt that can kill more than 25 lions is a prescription for extinction.

—Lynn Sadler

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It could be fear of men, lack of trust for adults or inability to enjoy normal sexual relationships.

—William Plantier

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Adults…struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire...

—Grant Morrison

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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 course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

—Jean-Louis Gassee

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

—Pearl Buck

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Give An African Child Or Adult A Enabled Environment And Proper Facilities Like In The West And See The Many Great Wonders That Would Be Manifested Through This Often Criticized Race. In My Own Case...

—Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

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Ultimately, our goal is for children and adults to understand that all of us have something meaningful to contribute to American democracy. We’ve built the Freedom Museum to play a role in the lives of...

—Dave Anderson

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Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what...

—Maurice Sendak

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As far as I can tell, it doesn’t make any difference to adults how clever children are. They always stick together. Unless you are sick or dying or mortally wounded, they will always side with...

—R.L. LaFevers

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Some people are crazy in love. They are so captivated to where they’ve lost themselves. Do not be lured in so deep that you lose the essence of who you truly are.

—Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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I don’t like being with grown-up people. I’ve known that a long time. I don’t like it because I don’t know how to get on with them.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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When he started, Christopher was really like a kid. He’s had, over the years, more and more adult responsibilities and adult experiences. He’s kind of closed some of the generation gap with Tony. But to...

—Michael Imperioli

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That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you...

—Peter David

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I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of...

—Albert Einstein

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It’s an awesome moment, seeing all those faces light up. Even a lot of the adults are surprised.

—Ed Evans

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Treasure the wisdom of old age.Learn from elder people and be wise.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn’t go to school for that, but if you’re going to be there anyway, then that’s the most...

—William Deresiewicz

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That when you get an adult that comes into an activity like that and tries to exploit young people I think is a tragedy.

—Bob Kuehl

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On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

—Hendrik Willem

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You and I both know that love is for children,” he said. ”We’re adults. Compatibility is for adults.””Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,” Teresa replied. ”Only they get along just fine, and my...

—Maggie Stiefvater

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Many elderly people choose cohabitation to avoid opposition from their adult children. A remarriage between two old people causes many sensitive issues.

—Wang Xun

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Anybody that doesn’t like this industry is a fool that’s not up to date on what teens and young adults are buying these days.

—Dan Ahrens

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We see allergic tendencies much more common in children than adults, and nobody really knows exactly why that is. The reality is, we can’t quite understand the aging process of the immune system, but it...

—David Kahn

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But I think parents aren’t teachers anymore. Parents — or a whole lot of us, at least — lead by mouth instead of by example. It seems to me that if a child’s hero is...

—Robert McCammon

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Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming — their trust that they are safe simply because he’s with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable...

—Paul Murray

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It’s not so much that there is an increase, but that more of its users are becoming adults rather than going off at about 18 or 19.

—Ann Smith

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Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more “useful” questions. Most adults aren’t themselves interested in philosophical questions. They may be...

—Gareth B.

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Children are being killed, because some “adults” think life is a game.Something is amiss.When children shoot up other children in school, it’s a national tragedy, and a week of mourning.When grown men are killing unarmed...

—Justin K.

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Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they’ve already decided they want to become.

—William Deresiewicz

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The problem with parents is that they’re adults.

—Benjamin Alire Saenz

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I have 14-year-olds that are stronger than some adults.

—Chris Sierzant

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One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector’s Dream.

—Marisha Pessl

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An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.You want something a little more colourful,...

—R.S. Vern

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Because they breathe more times per minute than adults, they are more susceptible to biological or chemical agents, … Because their skin is thinner than that of adults, they are more susceptible to toxic agents...

—Chris Dodd

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[E]verywhere I’m looking at kids, adults mostly don’t seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again...

—Emma Donoghue

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The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.

—Richelle E.

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These types of things are especially popular with children, because they get to see things in a different way… perhaps then more adults should allow themselves the same experience.

—Wayne Modest

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PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called “trousers” by the...

—Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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I catch sight of Janice. Her eyes are so full of excitement that I half expect her to jump up and down. This is something she’ll never forget, I tell myself. As an old lady...

—Eric Bishop-Potter

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Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

—Kelli Jae

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In an adult and in a child, you want them to begin rehabilitation as soon as possible.

—William Elkington

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As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.

—Carew Papritz

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About 17 percent of children are overweight and about a third of adults are obese.

—Cynthia Ogden

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I’d have to be out of the state or not in Eugene to not get to my adult league game. And I’m not a red-hot player. I have to wear glasses and whatnot.

—Ken Evans

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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I want to make it clear the kid did everything he was supposed to do. It was an adult error.

—Dan Evans

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Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that’s no longer valid. They used to be kids, then they became adults – but what are they...

—Erick Kästner

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I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because...

—Will Eisner

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