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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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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. – Margaret Mead

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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see whats important. – Clive Owen

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I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back. – Lindsay Lohan

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I do think I feel it but you dont think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you dont think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. Its been a long fifty years. – Bob Geldof

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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. – Joseph Addison

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