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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
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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."
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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."
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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."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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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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"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989."
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"I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment."
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"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."
Fear

"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."
Work

"Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition."
People

"My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians."
Parenting

"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment."
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"I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age."
Age

"I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6."
Age

"Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989."
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