grownups

• “I won't vote since I haven't read Shadow Country but I like the way the debate bares the fundamental question about the difference between books for youth and books for grownups: is there a difference and what is its nature?”

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• “But the idea that our focus on them should be when we're basically grownups is a little silly, given that we learn languages best when we are much younger than that.”

  NPR: What's The Point Of A Degree In French?

• “To me, it feels like it all comes down to control, a favored emotion found in grownups dealing with the young.”

  State Birds and Foods of Many Lands

• “That's the word grownups use when they don't want to start babbling about 80's commercials.”

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• “As news of all this widespread Wall Street chicanery spread, investors eventually realized that the "grownups" -- rating companies, boards of directors, regulators, and politicians -- had been well-paid to look the other way.”

  Forbes: Financial Reform, R.I.P.

• “While thinking about a well-known story found in many spiritual traditions, I had an insight about innocence and wisdom that very much pertains to the so-called grownups among us.”

  The Huffington Post: Levi Ben-Shmuel: Reclaiming the Wisdom of Innocence

• “The grownups are the voters, who -- lamely, in the mind of the political class -- are troubled by the war, the economy and boring stuff like that.”

  Marty Kaplan: Where Is the League of Women Voters When We Need Them?

• “And finally that brain cell fired and I realized this was my nephew Max and his nose had healed and the little girl was my niece Arrow and the grownups were my former brother-in-law and the Other Woman.”

  On the way to the Lumiere Festival « knitnut.net

• “Ironranger #216 Kids are great…accepting of people & practice true democracy until so-called grownups mess with their heads.”

  Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: The American Chickenhawk in its Native Habitat

• “Kids are great…accepting of people & practice true democracy until so-called grownups mess with their heads.”

  Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: The American Chickenhawk in its Native Habitat

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