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

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Women
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. – Margaret Mead

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Family
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that theyre all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. – Florence King

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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. – Dorothy Thompson

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel. – George Bernard Shaw

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. – Walker Percy

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I never do any television without chocolate. Thats my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually Im a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. Its amazing Im so slim. – Dawn French

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We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well. – Thad Cochran

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Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong – which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder. – Greek Proverb

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