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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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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

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In youth we learn in age we understand.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach



Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

- Alexander Hamilton



Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

- Soren Kierkegaard



To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

- Bertrand Russell



It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

- Bertrand Russell



Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

- Benjamin Disraeli



Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso



Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

- Phyllis Diller



Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

- Paulo Coelho



Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

- Joan Collins