Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. - G. Stanley Hall

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It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

G. Stanley Hall

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

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Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

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The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

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Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

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