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«The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise»
«Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives»
«The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.»
Author: Margaret Mead | About: Adulthood, Children | Keywords: adult, grow up, solution
«We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires... The church needs to withstand the tides of trends and the latest novelties.... We must become mature in this adult faith, we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith.»
«The creative adult is the child who has survived.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin (Writer) | Keywords: adult, survived
«The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.»
«Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.»
«Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards»
«One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.»
«To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.»

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