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“Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.”

Causes Common Risk Adults Raises Pneumonia Older Adults

Author:Paul A. Offit

“I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try to model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.”

People Trying Children Young Actors Causes Loses Acting Roles Models Adults Stink Keep Learning Child Actors

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.”

Feels School Causes Support Youth Adults Unusual Dictator Textbooks Slipping Impressionable Enlisting

Author:Samantha Power

“I think kids like chaos, in an interesting way. I think kids like to push buttons in adults. They like to antagonize and cause trouble. I think it's the kid-like spirit that kids respond to.”

Thinking Way Kids Spirit Causes Interesting Trouble Adults Chaos Buttons Interesting Ways

Author:Jason Lee

“Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.”

Problem Causes Term Adults Abolish

Author:Adora Svitak

“There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital relationships and occupational stress. The reality is that the social causes of mental ill-health are all around us.”

Kind Reality Social Causes Adults Stress Adversity Including Ill Debt Psychological Provoking Distress Severe Unemployment Ill Health

Author:Richard Bentall

“As far as in my adult life, it kinda started (with) writing first 'cause I went to school in Nashville. I mean, not Nashville but close to Nashville, and I met my managers in L.A. at a convention randomly. And then, it kinda just started from there. And then, I got my publishing deal.”

Writing Firsts Mean School Causes Deals Mets Adults Managers Conventions Publishing Nashville

Author:PJ Harvey

“The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.”

Doe Young Causes Adults My Family Incredibles Young Adult Cancer Caring Teenager Teenage

Author:Florence Welch

“I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Persons America Young Father Causes Sports Voice Numbers Rich Adults Connections Baseball Radio Foxes Jimmy Hooked Peg Metropolitan

Author:George Will

“...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.”

Ifs Life Running Causes Numbers Worry Late Adults Worried Liars Bud Running Late

Book:Bud, not Buddy: with connections

Source: Bud, not Buddy: with connections

“The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.”

Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic

“It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.”

Ifs Children Pain Young Causes Humility Taught Adults

Author:Darren Shan

“Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.”