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• They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

  Ari Shavit

  Moving, Responsibility, Political

  "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

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• The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.

  Frank Griswold

  Past, Order, Challenges

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• Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

  Ann Landers

  Long, Judgment, Bigs

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• The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

  Christian Smith

  Spiritual, Teacher, Children

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• Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

  Thomas Sowell

  Imperfection, Vigilance, Price Of Freedom

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• Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.

  A. W. Tillinghast

  Golf, Player, Atlanta

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• The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Religious, Loss, Race

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Commitment, India

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

  Harriet Lerner

  War, Believe, Apology

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

  Prince

  Brother, Animal, Past

  Song: Animal Kingdom, Album: The Truth

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• Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

  David Hilbert

  Degrees, Kind, Mathematics

  "Axiomatic Thought (1918)". "From Kant to Hilbert: a source book in the foundations of mathematics". Book by William Bragg Ewald, 1996.

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• We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

  Simon Blackburn

  Memories, Grieving, Taste

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Country, Prejudice, Fruit

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.101

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• Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

  Robert Blair

  Vegetables, Progress, Decay

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• Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Taken, Self

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• The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Common Sense, Judgement

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• In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.

  William C. Menninger

  Loyalty, Fear, Reality

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• When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been sitting with her and mentoring her. They think he would have spent a lot of time in bringing her up. They think he would have constructed her.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, Father

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• Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Discipline, Mind, Want

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• By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

  Marie Dressler

  Birthday, Turning 50, Important

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

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• We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

  Midge Decter

  Strong, Growing Up, Safe Keeping

  Midge Decter (1975). “Liberal parents, radical children”, Coward McCann

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• Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

  Sigmund Freud

  Psychology, Mature, Ability

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• Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Categorization, Ability

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• Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

  Alain de Botton

  Inspiring, Opinion

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014

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• Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.

  Andre Maurois

  Writing, Expectations, Childhood

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