#advanced

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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