"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."

Age, Possessions, Usefulness

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"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."

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"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

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"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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