"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."

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"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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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."

William James, American Philosopher

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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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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"What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self."

Confidence

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

Challenge

"The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life."

Responsibility

"There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive."

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"The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift."

Giving

"She will always be the rainbow in my clouds."

Hope

"With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health."

Health

"Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now."

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"Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive."

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"Your calling isn't something that somebody can tell you about. It's what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself."

Purpose