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“Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center of the universe. Children are miniature adults. At one time in history each of these beliefs was generally held to be true. Each, however, gave way to different ideas and even different world views.”

Source: Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future

“Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.”

People Ifs Children Care Kids Turns Reading Sound Lines Talking Listening Benefits Adults Extras Immigrants Volume Deaf Turn Off

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.”

“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and mistakes, trial and error, and now and again that feeling that you might have wings.”

Feelings Might Age Lines Mistake Training Adults Wings Errors Trials Wheels Arbitrary Crossings Trial And Error Training Wheels

Author:Megan Crane

“As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.”

Feels Made Ends Moments America Lines Decision Environment Fate Planets Paper Adults Green Series Reports Plastic Ongoing Competent Groceries Buyers Hinges Brief Moments Quake Checkouts

Author:Brian Williams

“You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.”

Ifs Humans Reason Feelings Lines Draws Adults Boundaries Sensible Irrational Marvelous Rationale

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.”

Ifs Years Helping Lying Next Lines Forget Adults Mysterious Retirement Adulthood

Author:Robert Bly

“I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.”

Writing I Can Song Lines Worry Adults Pops Sensibility Hook Chorus

Author:John Mellencamp

“Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.”

Writing Mean Lines Adults Alternatives Swearing

Author:Steven Moffat

“My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.”

Children Father Parent Lines Saws Streets New York Adults Standing Bread Neighborhood Begging Brooklyn Great Depression 1930s Brooklyn New York

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.”

People Children Littles Made Moments Choices Given Lines Weakness Adults Expected Pretending Obedient Moments Of Weakness

Book:Little Children: A Novel

Source: Little Children: A Novel

“Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?”

Firsts Children Littles Asks Lines Pieces Paper Adults Philosopher Pencils Scribbles

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?”

People Ifs Children Different Seems Lines Crime Adults Crowds Following Hey Bridges Conformity Jumping Jumping Off Following The Crowd Jumping Off A Bridge

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.”

World Looks Children Two Important Ideas Real Sides Lines Generations Rocks Wall Adults Built Mere Seven Boundaries Climbs Over It Gates Geometry Ambiguous

Book:The Dispossessed

Source: The Dispossessed