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"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares."
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Personal Development
"Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed."
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Personal Development
"For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress - to the future."
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Personal Development
"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
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Personal Development
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
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Personal Development
"It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time."
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Personal Development
"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
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Personal Development
"In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do."
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Personal Development
"You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so."
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Personal Development
"Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas."
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Personal Development
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"Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf."
Justice
"I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin."
Religion
"Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu."I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter."Then let's do it. That's us in spades."
Determination
"You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are."
Philosophy
"I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares."
Maturity
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
Privacy
"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."
Community
"Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be."
Philosophy
"Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings."
Psychology
"Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty."
Philosophy
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