"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man."

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"Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

Eric Bentley, English Critic

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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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"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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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

Thomas Gold, Austrian Scientist

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"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep."

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"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."

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"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

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"I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough."

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"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."

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"There can be no security where there is fear."

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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."

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"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."

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"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."

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