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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

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

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

"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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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."

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."

"I don't like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution."

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

"In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?"
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