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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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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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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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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."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
Limit

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Technology

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
Possibility

"But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea, there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment."
Science

"Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity."
Philosophy

"There were, however, a few exceptions.One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had been deposited, not very gently, on the lawn, where it was hoped that a hyena would give him a rude awakening. For all practical purposes he could, therefore, be regarded as absent."
Behavior

"Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe, that was almost an article of faith among scientists."
Astronomy

"Many of the fundamental physical constants-which as far as one could see, God could have given any value He liked-are in fact very precised adjusted, or fine-tuned, to produce the only kind of Universe that makes our existence possible."
Science

"Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other."
Solidarity

"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
Defense
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