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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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Personal Development
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"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
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."
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"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."
God
"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
"The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are."
People
"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
Maturity
"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
"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
"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
Certainty
"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
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