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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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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."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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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?"
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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."
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"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"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."
Nation
"I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age."
Age
"My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians."
Parenting
"I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6."
Age
"I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives."
Positive
"I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends."
Friendship
"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989."
Life
"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."
Work
"I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment."
Work
"Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition."
People
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