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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. – Margaret Mead

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, its the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. – Margaret Mead

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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. – Margaret Mead

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Instead of bewailing a lost youth, a man nowadays begins to wonder, when he reaches my ripe age of forty-two, if ever his past will subside and be comfortably by-gone. – D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)

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You have to be desirable. And thats why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, Why do women do this? Where do you go in your 50s in your career? – Kim Cattrall

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Middle age is when youre sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isnt for you. – Ogden Nash

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And Im not as young as I once was. At my age, I dont have time to be bored. – Lev Grossman

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