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Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their… — Johan Huizinga
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up… — Johan Huizinga
The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age. — Ashleigh Brilliant
If you don’t learn constantly, you don’t grow and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder… — Iris Apfel
Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible. — Herbert V. Prochnow
To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. — Regina Brett
Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater… — Ricky Williams
I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she… — Elizabeth Edwards
Angelina Jolie’s older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it’s not… — Chelsea Handler
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you… — Mary McCarthy
I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention Ive gotten along the way and use it for good and build… — Reggie Watts
The Mets have shied away from that iconic club because they don't want the current one exposed to that hard-partying culture which, while well-documented, has… — Mookie Wilson
I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding. — Patrick Stump
No, it has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in that will keep you alive far… — Veruschka von Lehndorff
When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those… — Troy Perry
The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to… — Unknown Author
It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great… — Robbie Coltraine
This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older… — Unknown Author
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they… — Madeleine L'Engle
It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another… — Nick Cave
I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you… — George Bernard Shaw
When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments… — Pope Francis
In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was… — Mikhail Lomonosov
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading. — Vivek Wadhwa
Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that… — Swami Vivekananda

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