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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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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. – Margaret Mead

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Fear
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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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Change
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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you dont agree with or like. – Margaret Mead

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respect
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, Ive just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someones 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in. – Francesca Annis

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Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. – Bobby Darin

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. – Alan Bleasdale

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Whats a mans age? He must hurry more, thats all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. – Robert Browning

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Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. – Maria Montessori

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One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. – D.H. Lawrence

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Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. – Susan Lieberman

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I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. – James Conrad

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