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Quote by 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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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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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. – Margaret Mead

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. – Soren Kierkegaard

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I feel like women are asked their age more than men. – Kristen Wiig

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Live your life and forget your age. – Jean Paul

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Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. – Margaret Willour

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