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“Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those small decisions that fill our day. It is one that you can practice, and that can be done in concrete steps. And if you slip up and have Diet Coke for breakfast, no one busts in and snatches away your Adult card. Just move forward and have milk tomorrow.”

Ifs Trying Done Moving Decision Steps Practice Tomorrow Adults Moving Forward Cards Diets Breakfast Milk Slips Concrete Verbs Coke Nouns Diet Coke Small Decisions

Author:Kelly Williams Brown

“As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.”

Games Practice Adults Concerned Mark Contradiction Cooperation Mentality Mystical Constraints Marble Egocentric

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one’s girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage.”

Persons Facts Girl Courses Sex Term Practice Willing Concepts Adults Hatred Odd Girlfriend Dislike Reserved Not Friends

Book:Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

“All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.”

People Giving Practice Advice Adults Kinky Giving Advice

Book:What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World

Source: What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World

“There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.”

Ifs Want Matter Age Young Sports Practice Exercise Adults Weight No Matter What Height Requirements Competitors Skates Good Exercise

Author:Nancy Kerrigan

“When I became an adult, I had absolutely nothing against drinking alcohol. Many of my friends drank. I would often make wine and offer it, but I never sat down and drank it myself. That affect my religious practice.”

Religious Practice Offers My Friends Adults Down And Wine Drinking Alcohol Sat Drank Absolutely Nothing Drinking Alcohol Religious Practices

Author:David C. Driskell

“I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.”

Home Young Death Religion Liberty Practice Dying Protect Intellectual Adults Innocent Privacy Perversion Creationist

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.”

Made Said Spiritual Voice Situation Boys Practice Fate Conscious Adults Inner Voice Spiritual Practice Jung Work Relationships

Author:Michael Gurian

“Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.”

Children Literature Enjoy Pleasure Practice Figures Adults Parenting Deception Deceiving Figure Skating

Author:Elias Canetti

“When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that a suppressed pattern of life has become natural to us. It is not natural! Look at a child: he plays with his body in quite a different way. If he is crying, he is crying intensely. The cry of a child is a beautiful thing to hear, but the cry of an adult is ugly. Even in anger a child is beautiful; he has a total intensity. But when an adult is angry he is ugly; he is not total. And any type of intensity is beautiful.”