"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

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"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety."

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