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" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "

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" The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. "

" I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. "

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" My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class. "

" I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger. "

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" Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. "

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" Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all. "

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" By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience. "

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