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If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

~Alfred Russel Wallace

Topics: Ages Back Blind Certainly Considerations Done Future Higher Immersed Look People Pursuit Us Wealth Will

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For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn't be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It's a surprise to me that this hasn't happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Ages Amount Become Best Body Certain Comfort Comfort Zone Could Different Different Person Had Happened Idea Long Long Time Me Mind More Person Pushed Reach Same Surprise Then Time Work Would Write Your Your Body Zone

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Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Age Ages Anxious Babies Books Children More More And More Ours Parents Reading Reading Books Until Womb Younger

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We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Ability Ages Around Bad Between Children Dirt Five Go Growing Growing Up Happy Isolation Just Lack Nothing Out People Play Poverty Quite Seem Support Them Up Which Zero

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Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

~Alison Sweeney

Topics: About Ages American Approximately At Least One Believe Blame Children Disease Fact Factor Heart Heart Disease How Kids Least Obese Overweight Parents Percent Risk Schools Us Years You

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From the ages of 12 to 35 my body, not my mind, was my primary currency. My ideas, my humor, my curiosity - none of those were valued as much as my body, which preceded me into almost every room.

~Amanda De Cadenet

Topics: Ages Almost Body Curiosity Currency Every Humor Ideas Me Mind Much None Primary Room Those Valued Were Which

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Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.

~Amanda Donohoe

Topics: Ages Area Between Drama Embrace Enough Few Grandmother Invisibility Just Old Old Enough Older Older Women Play Really Ridiculous Roles Soaps Tv Unless Women You

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Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

~Amanda Seyfried

Topics: Abandoned Acting After Ages Back Bringing Considered Even First First Love Got Grew Just Just Kind Kind Lessons Life Love Moved My Life Never New New York Now Once Once A Week Pennsylvania Serious Singing Started Thing Trained Up Voice Week Whole York

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When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Ages Altogether Even Free Influence Learning Middle Middle Ages Monks Only People Specialized Warfare Were

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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

~Amy Adams

Topics: Actor Ages Bringing Genres Great Muppet Together Tradition

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