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• The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

  Joss Whedon

  Real, Past, Love Is

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• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  Orson Welles

  Trying, Prove, Irresponsible

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• I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

  J. C. Watts

  Reality, Skin Color, America

  "Live Chat: Congressman J.C. Watts". The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Writing, Criticism

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• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Business, Discovery, Depth

  "Gary Vaynerchuk gives personal brand top billing". Interview with John Warrillow, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 29, 2010.

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

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• I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Age, Trying

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• If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Tree, Age, Body

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• There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

  Anne Bishop

  Appreciate, Answers, Enough

  Anne Bishop (1998). “Daughter of the Blood: The Black Jewels Trilogy”, p.280, Penguin

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• There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Matter, Mature Love

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• Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

  Patti Stanger

  Men, Age, Make Sense

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• To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.

  Dwyane Wade

  Suits You, People, Tweed

  “Dwyane Wade's Five Steps to Off-Court Style” by Will Welch, www.gq.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

  Henry Ford

  People, Age, Doe

  Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1930). “Moving Forward”

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• It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Suffering, Fleeing, Unions

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• Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.

  Leon Uris

  Real, Joy, Rooms

  Leon Uris (1977). “Trinity”

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• You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Self Esteem, Thinking

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  Some age. Others mature.

  Sean Connery

  Bad Ass, Age, Ass

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon." I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Writing, Intelligent

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.62, Hamilton Books

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• The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Responsibility, Men, Doe

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• Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

  Bill Watterson

  Successful, Years, Envy

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• Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

  Clarice Lispector

  Rotting, Becoming, Danger

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Baseball, Pain

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

  Graham Greene

  Break Up, Breakup, Wine

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life, Way, Chiefs

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.192, Open Road Media

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• I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Imagination, Way

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