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"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
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"It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult, and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."
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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time."
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"Insecurity, thy name is teenager."
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Personal Development
"Some people are boys longer than others."
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"When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business " that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time."
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"The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence."
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"At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time."
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"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
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"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."
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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
History
"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it."
Life
"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
Power
"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
Creativity
"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."
God
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
Creativity
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Technology
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Possibility
"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."
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