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		Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns for that movement so that they can sexualize them at the earliest possible age. It really is insidious and I agree with you, it is a super sin.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				E.W. Jackson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lewis Carroll
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elaine Stritch
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Forty-nine is extremely young. If forty-nine is not young, that would make me old, and I am not old. I have reached the age of maturity to which all humans must particularly aspire; to dismiss this pinnacle of perfection as old age is to demean all of humankind.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Courtney Milan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jean-Claude Van Damme
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Toussaint Louverture
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Stop being afraid of getting older. With age comes wisdom and confidence.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Robin Williams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gabriel Fackre
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kenneth Branagh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bonnie Raitt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Moliere
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jonathan Swift
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emile Zola
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Friedrich Durrenmatt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rem Koolhaas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One thing I've learned is that preschool teachers really have seen it all - and they can be a wealth of information! If you have any questions about a certain behavioral hurdle with your child or if you have a question about a certain age or phase, ask them!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eva Amurri