"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."

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"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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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."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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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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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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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."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

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"I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped."

Karl Lagerfeld, German Designer

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"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."

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"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."

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"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."

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"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."

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"I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family."

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"I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone."

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"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."

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"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."

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"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."

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"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."

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