Families survive the Terrible Twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons. A 2-year-old with the physical capacities of an adult would be terrifying.
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Related If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. ROBERT CAPA Violinists' hands aren't the prettiest because of our nails and what our hands have to go th... LINDSEY STIRLING If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page. CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that ... DONALD JUDD There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan... TOM FORD Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game. DOYLE BRUNSON British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are g... EMMA THOMPSON I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating ar... CHER Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed th... 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UCHTDORF If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Pl... MICHELLE MALKIN This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably b... POPPY Z. BRITE Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren&... DAVID GILL We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren'... LAMAR ALEXANDER People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty gi... PADMA LAKSHMI Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air. ROBIN GIBB The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already ... DONALD TRUMP A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at... OMARI HARDWICK Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful. 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NICK PARK A lot of them have families to feed, and I think it's a tragic situation where players aren'... COLIN KAEPERNICK Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders. ERIC SCHLOSSER You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers ar... SUGATA MITRA There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books. MATT HAIG I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm ... MIRANDA HART True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts. MIA HAMM There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't pro... RICHARD DAWKINS Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's t... AMY LEE Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my peopl... ADAM ROSS Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expecte... STEVE JOBS You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking. THE WEEKND People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad ... MILLARD DREXLER I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense. MARTHA BECK Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as ... ROSAMUND PIKE I'm not your typical quarterback. I don't like when people say, 'Quarterbacks aren't... COLIN KAEPERNICK Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogar... SYDNEY POLLACK Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the re... YANN MARTEL There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies... GREG GINN You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect. JACLYN SMITH With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren&... P. C. CAST Personality and socialization aren't the same thing. STEVEN PINKER The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and hi... GEORGE CROOK In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. IRIS MURDOCH There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important... MARGUERITE MOREAU You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing. CHRIS ROCK My parents aren't really conformists. BILLY HOWLE People aren't born racist. EDWARD FURLONG People aren't inherently sympathetic. DAMIEN CHAZELLE There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors o... 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JAMES LOVELOCK Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere. ALEXANDRA PAUL People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves. LARRY WILMORE Basketball players aren't always the best dressers. ODELL BECKHAM, JR. 'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them ... DAVID MORRISSEY A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren... DRAKE BELL The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke. DANNY BROWN There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representat... G. WILLOW WILSON In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, ... DON BLUTH If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally re... MARILYN MANSON Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty p... CLAIRE CAMERON Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own. CHUCK YEAGER You are a saucy little thing aren't you? SIMON COWELL Material things aren't important to me. TROY POLAMALU
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