"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."
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"Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves."
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"I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity."
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"When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style."
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"Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!"
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"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
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"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
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"All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive."
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"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity."
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"Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others."
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"Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person."
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"It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth."
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"It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do."
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"Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive."
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"Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port."
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"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable."
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"Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win."
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"A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity."
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"I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity."
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