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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, Cycling, Race

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• Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

  Dr. Seuss

  Children, Childhood, Hell

  "Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel". Book by Thomas Fensch, p. 96, 1997.

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• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Designer Clothes, Literature

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.219, Vintage

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• For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Half, Firsts, Democrat

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• Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Children, Choices, Abnormal

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

  Candace Cameron

  Drivers, Treated, License

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Children, Care, Dental

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• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Boys, Males

  Nancy Friday (1980). “Men in Love: Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage”

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• It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

  Kathy Valentine

  Movie, Valentines Day, Lunch

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• Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

  Bill Griffith

  Real, Kids, Body

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• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Smart, Reading Books, Enough

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• 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.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Use, Violence

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• Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

  Mike Pence

  Cells, Miracle, Research

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

  Frank Pittman

  Powerful, Successful, Parent

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• The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Moving, Competition, Fierce

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Thinking, Noses, Adultery

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• But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

  Robert Fripp

  Training, Attention, Holding On

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• I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

  James McGreevey

  Men, Affair, Engaged

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

  Philip Kaufman

  Thinking, Europe, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

  King Hussein I

  Truth, Mistake, Dark

  "Remarks during a conference of Arab chiefs of state". The New York Times, p. 6, August 31, 1967.

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• How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

  Randall Terry

  Marriage, Boys, Men

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• Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities.

  Kent McCord

  Children, Pregnancy, People

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• The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

  Anne Cassidy

  Baby, Two, Choices

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• Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

  Totie Fields

  Children, Temples, Charisma

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• Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

  Donna Tartt

  Children, Emotional, Literature

  "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. October 22, 2002.

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