"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."

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"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."

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"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

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"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."

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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

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"We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making."

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"I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging."

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"We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation."

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"Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age."

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"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."

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"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

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"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."

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"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."

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"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."

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"You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex."

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"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."

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"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."

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"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self."

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