"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

Dorothy Thompson, American Journalist

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"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."

Gordon Sinclair, Canadian Journalist

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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

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"You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress."

Eva Herzigova, Czechoslovakian Model

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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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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

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"It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time."

Neil Cavuto, American Journalist

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"At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role."

Donald Sutherland, Canadian Actor

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"I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster."

Philip Dunne, American Screenwriter

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"Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains."

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"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."

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"More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to."

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"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth."

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"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting."

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"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression."

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"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry."

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"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."

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"There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again."

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"I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container."

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