Quote by Margaret Mead
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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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. – Margaret Mead

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Age
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Never believe that a few caring people cant change the world. For, indeed, thats all who ever have. – Margaret Mead

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Change
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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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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. – Sri Aurobindo

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It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. Its kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible. – Jean Claude Van Damme

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Im not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but Im trying. – Tiger Woods

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Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. – Author Unknown

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