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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. – Margaret Mead

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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. – Margaret Mead

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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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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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Ive had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man. – Jamie Foxx

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Youth is when youre allowed to stay up late on New Years Eve. Middle age is when youre forced to. – Bill Vaughan

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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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