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• Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Moving, Character, Self

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• The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Unique, Feelings, Different

  "Essays on Elizabethan Drama".

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• You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

  Harry S. Truman

  Two, Evil, Impossible

  Harry S. Truman (1999). “Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters Harry Truman Never Mailed”, p.134, University of Missouri Press

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• I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

  Mickey Rourke

  Balance, Young, Being Immature

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• It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

  Paul McCartney

  Believe, Kids, Savages

  Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Moving Forward, Patriotism

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• I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.

  Ron Silver

  People, Way, Saws

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• Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

  Clark Moustakas

  Children, Escaping, Comforting

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• Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Grief, Causes, Strategy

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Standup Comic". A CD compilation of Allen comedy routines from 1964-1968, 1999.

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• The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.

  Lindsey Graham

  Legal System, Afghanistan

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• It is natural for the immature to harm others.
  Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning.

  Shantideva

  Fire, Burning, Natural

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• Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Maturity, Principles

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Order, Imagination

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be at the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

  Henry C. Link

  Children, People, Forever

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• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  Vera Brittain

  Expression, Political, Immaturity

  Rebel Passion (1964) ch. 1

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• I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Happy Birthday, Crazy, Kids

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.

  ASAP Rocky

  Skin Color, Skins, Way

  "Jay-Z, Macklemore, ASAP Rocky lead gay-rights shift in hip-hop" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 27, 2013.

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• It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

  John Knowles

  Affection, Demeaning

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• ...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Tired, Curiosity, Immaturity

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• Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Leader, Levels

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• The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Inspirational, Maturity, Focus

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• Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!

  Immanuel Kant

  Immaturity, Roles, Laziness

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?". Essay by Immanuel Kant, 1784.

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• What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Life Lesson, Eye

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