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"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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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."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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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.'"
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
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"Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework."
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"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."
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"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."
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"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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"The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it."
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"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
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"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."
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"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."
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"We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry."
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"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."
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