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"I know that when you're a teenager - sometimes when you're an adult - what sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it's not. And a lot of the time, it's what makes you great."
"Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness."
"I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today."
"There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration."
"The difference between a child's toy and an adult toy is: location, location, location."
"Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-"
"Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults."
"When we’re young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young."
"According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here."
"The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education."
"I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard."
"Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her."
"I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal."
"Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way to make sure that I wasn't traumatized or overly depressed by them. So death is always a celebration of life for me, and it's also hugely dramatic."
"First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see."
"Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"
"Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's."
"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."
"I am an adult, but a damaged one."
"If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle."
