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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

“Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.”

Way Needs Looks May Children Spirit Effort Sacrifice Personality Development Adults Empty Filled Constant Guides Convinced Look Up Helpless Lacking Behalf Zeal

Author:Maria Montessori

“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

“When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.”

Children Happens Kids Used Spirit Imagination Adults My Family My Imagination

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that's just the way it always is when you're a kid, but I think now more than ever it's for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don't think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn't have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October.”

Thinking Way Kids Spirit Felt Adults Sexy Pops Stores Holiday Halloween Really Great Costumes October Good Sense

Author:Michael Dougherty

“In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.”

Children Play Spirit Adults Killing Busy Preparation Preparation For Death

Book:BERTHEL MERRIDAY

Source: BERTHEL MERRIDAY

“My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing of a few adult pedants is nothing compared to the wrath of several million bookish 10-year-olds. Their presumed demands, and the hovering spirit of Harry's creator, J. K. Rowling, inhibit this movie as it did the first Potter film.”

Years Firsts May Film Spirit Millions Source Demand Adults Fellows Faults Critics Details Creator Wrath Potters Hovering Pedants Departing

Author:A. O. Scott

“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

“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

“The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it’s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can’t-do-this, and can’t-do-that’s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.”

Feels Heart Littles Spirit Fun Sound Chance Race Break Darkness Alive Risk Magic Danger Calling Adults Boxes Endless Cruelty Having Fun Cages Stolen One Chance

Book:The Child Thief: A Novel

Source: The Child Thief: A Novel

“Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.”

Children Enough Spirit Suffering Broken Needed Adults Notion Innocence Mature Wipe Joyous Broken Down

Book:Centaur Aisle

Source: Centaur Aisle