"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."

Age, Ambiguity, Right, Woman

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"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

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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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David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

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"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

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"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."

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"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

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"Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life."

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"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."

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