"The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it."

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Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent."

Jared Sparks, American Educator

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

"If youth knew; if age could."

"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."

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent."

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