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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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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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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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High expectations werent nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children werent fawned over from an early age as gifted and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. – James Wolcott

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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Here comes 40. Im feeling my age and Ive ordered the Ferrari. Im going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. – Keanu Reeves

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America doesnt reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. – Meryl Streep

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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. – William Osler

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If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area. – Jason Segel

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