"Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore."
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"No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead."
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"I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it."
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"A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed."
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"All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child."
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"The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation."
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"A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_."
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"When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things."
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"Dare to be the adults we want our children to be."
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"I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'"
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"Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult."
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"Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult."
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"Children are much less annoying [than adults] and they never start trends."
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"I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.” “Pessimistic … pessimistic …” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only sixteen,” she said, “and I don’t know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I’m pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."
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"In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person."
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"Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence."
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"Every adult was once a child free from prejudice."
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"Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?"
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"the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young" he is; 'adult' he is not."
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"So many kids and adults, too, have gotten just about one of the roughest breaks that can happen to a person. We can help these people."
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