"Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age."

Age, Faith, Values, Job

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"Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"From a relatively early age I got interested in business."

Steve Case, American Businessman

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

Mother

"Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued."

Eye

"Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another."

Men

"A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life."

Life

"Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?"

Men

"Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress."

Distrust

"We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?"

Life

"No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him."

Success

"Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age."

Age