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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
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"Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried."
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"Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me."
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"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
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"Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost."
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"Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom."
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"She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches beeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much."
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"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
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"You might say that you've finally earned the wisdom.Actually, it's the wisdom that has found and formed you."
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"You don't tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man."
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"Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman."
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"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
Duty
"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
Psychology
"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
Man
"The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are."
People
"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."
Nature
"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
Intelligence
"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
Life
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
Happiness
"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
Love
"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
Man
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