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"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
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"Some people are boys longer than others."
"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."
"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."
"When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she'd kept from raising her hand because she didn't want to seem too smart or too eager?"
"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."
"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24 - year - old girl."
"Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you."
"Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future."
"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
"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?"
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
"Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He would turn up the gain until the room filled with a crackling, hissing roar; out of this background, at irregular intervals, emerged brief whistles and peeps like the cries of demented birds. It was an eerie sound, for it had nothing to do with Man; it was as lonely and meaningless as the murmur of waves on a beach, or the distant crash of thunder beyond the horizon."
"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
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