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"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."
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"Growing older is certain, growing wiser is harder and optional."
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"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
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"When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!"
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"As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty."
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"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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"I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings."
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"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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"Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity."
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"When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost."
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"Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died..."
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"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
Politics
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
Persistence
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
Integrity
"I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No-when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
Religion
"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
Wisdom
"To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary."
Politics
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."
Politics
"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
Integrity
"All I have learned, I learned from books."
Education
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