"The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking."

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Source : "12-year-old author: Don't say 'childish'" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2010.

Adora Svitak

#Thinking Quotes #Age Quotes #Adults Quotes

“Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.”
“The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.”

Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“each dot: the center of a circle without circumference ...”
“And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.”
“The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.”
“Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.”
“I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I dont know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasnt a lot of kids to impress or reign over.”
“Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.”

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