"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

George Orwell, British Author

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."

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"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

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"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."

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"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

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"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."

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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

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"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative."

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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."

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