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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."
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"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."

"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money."

"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."

"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."

"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."

"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt."
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