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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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Personal Development
"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"
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Personal Development
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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Personal Development
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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Personal Development
"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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Personal Development
"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."
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"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."
Religion
"No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process."
Life
"But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science."
Science
"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs."
Perception
"The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month."
Change
"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant."
Motivational
"We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization."
Consciousness
"Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training."
Science
"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
Reason
"Plato wove historical fact into literary myth."
Fact
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