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“The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.”

Way Humans Made Facts Belief Religious Common Emotion Ordinary Adults Human Experience Religious Belief Common Ground

Book:Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

Source: Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense

“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

“The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.”

States Life Is Culture Common Modern Youth Offers Adults Ethical Passages Togetherness Rite Sanctify Youth Culture Rite Of Passage Common Culture Modern Youth

Book:Modern Culture

Source: Modern Culture

“People who grew up as child stars have the same thing in common. You're cute, they love you; you go through the awkward stage, they don't accept you any more. Very few make the transition to adult star.”

People Children Stars Common Accepting Stage Love You Grew Grew Up Adults Cute Transition Awkward

Author:Michael Jackson

“Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.”

“Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go to work. They are more content and playful in the presence of other adults, meaning that they feel secure with people other than Mother.”

People Feels Mother Common Baby Research Adults Separation Common Sense Psychological Secure Attachment Bonding Psychological Research

Author:Sandra Scarr

“There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these agencies are used both to contribute to mutual comprehension between different nations and cultures, and also to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures.”

“The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing blocks of desire, philosophy, or religion . . . the person who has the mind and heart of a child. One must simply know nature . . . real nature, not the one we think we know!”

Thinking Knows Mind Heart Children Persons Real Philosophy Desire Natural Common Adults Block Agriculture Heart And Mind

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Soul Spirit Humanity Common Possibility Planets Development Adults Blow Free Will Mature Common Experience

Author:Ken Wilber

“Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.”

Trying Moments Running Realizing Common Adults Inevitable Repeats Guests Gathering Liquor Dope

Book:Holidays on Ice

Source: Holidays on Ice

“Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.”

Children Common Behavior Adults Accepted Agreement Unspoken Common Things Schizoid

Book:THE SHINING

Source: THE SHINING

“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.”

Children Reality Young Grows Parent Common Grief Childhood Terrible Protect Adults Bitter Awful Innocence Vulnerability Rodents

Author:Katherine Dunn

“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.”