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“Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.”

Knows Serious Adults Paid Bills Killers Indebtedness

Author:Frank Lautenberg

“Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.”

World School Serious High School Adults Premises Unspoken Microcosm Time Of Your Life

Author:Rian Johnson

“Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.”

Knows Sometimes Sex Serious Adults Teenager Taboo

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.”

Children Stills Play Found Stuff Serious Adults Goofy

Author:Matt Groening

“I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.”

People Thinking Should Writing Kind Children Important Book Stories Happens Would Be Young Novel Serious Adults Should Have Features Theme

Author:John Boyne

“Historians of the future will find it incredible that we mutilated babies by cutting off the end of their penises in the name of medicine. There are now serious concerns this routine procedure may actually deprive adult men of a vital part of their sexual sensitivity.”

Men May Ends Names Cutting Serious Baby Adults Concern Medicine Incredibles Routine Historian Sensitivity Procedures Cutting Off

Author:Dean Edell

“Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.”

Brain Serious Citizens Healthy Adults Function Longevity Healthy Life Optimal Physical Fitness

Author:Paul Dudley White

“Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.”

Ifs World Giving Believe Children Helping Dies Poverty Serious Amount Adults Increase Aids Around The World Decent Good Life Decent Life Living The Good Life

Author:Peter Singer

“A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.”

Source: Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark

“We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.”

Years Said Two Enough Moments Facts Hands Kids Turns Felt Sides Situation Teacher Fronts Serious Needed Adults Treats Treated Mature Frustrating Respectable Annoyed Had Enough Badges

Book:Darkness Be My Friend

Source: Darkness Be My Friend

“What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.”

Ifs Long Doe Book Facts Seems Lasts Young Belief Nations Serious Type Hero Adults Tradition Educated Assumption Biology Legends Heroic Creeps Indoctrination Biased Poisonous Pernicious Tacit

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious about two fundamental things ... the first is the love of activity... The second fundamental thing is independence.”

Firsts Children Two Law Serious Development Activity Understood Adults Independent Independence Fundamentals Urges Obliged

Author:Maria Montessori