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Mariel Hemingway Actress, Author
Adults

"I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then."

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Billie Jean King Tennis Player
Adults

"I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic."

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Adults

"The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off."

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Dora Russell Artist
Adults

"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."

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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
Adults

"The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself."

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Jack Graham Artist
Adults

"If you're single, use this time now to make the biggest impact you can for God's Kingdom. Enjoy how God uses you as a single adult to show His love to others because you are in a unique place to minister to others where married adults could not!"

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Mara Wilson Actress
Adults

"Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors."

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