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How to use the word adolescence in a Sentence? Page #2

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Just like adolescence is between childhood and adulthood, paranormal, or other, is between human and supernatural.

– Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Adherence to a daily drug regimen for a life-long, chronic disease is challenging in the best of settings, as children transition to adolescence and strive for greater independence, the role of a supportive adult in the home remains critical to maintaining high levels of adherence while at the same time allowing the adolescent to take more responsibility for their own health.

– William Moss

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The traditional understanding of consumer surplus assumes a rational consumer, and that becomes strange for a behavior that you start in adolescence or that's addictive.

– Harvard Medical School

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Gender nonconforming and transgender individuals face challenges within our own community, say nothing of the vast array of perceptions they experience outside of it. Compound that with the trials and tribulations of childhood and adolescence, and it's quite obvious why these amazing young people deserve to see 2 million people supporting them along Fifth Avenue, what the world will see in return are smiling young faces, lit up by the ecstatic energy of rainbow-flag-waving spectators. If they're OK with who they are, the world should be, too.

– David Studinski

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.

– Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

– Jules Feiffer

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

– Eric Hoffer

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14 years ago

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

– Bruce Barton

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14 years ago

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

– Georges Bernanos

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14 years ago

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

– Henri Estienne

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14 years ago

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

– Jules Feiffer

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14 years ago

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.

– Art Linkletter

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14 years ago

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

– John Ciardi

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14 years ago

Adolescence is a time of uncertainty, stuffed with expectations and glazed with rebellion

– Christiaan van der Spuy

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14 years ago

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