"We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives."

Age, Ageing, Fact

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"We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."

William Blake, English Poet

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"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia."

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"The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation."

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"Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character."

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"It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios."

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"We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity."

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"Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances."

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"We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care."

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"Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world."

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"And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet."

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"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services."

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