"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

Age, Forget, Invention

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Not even old age knows how to love death."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"No lie ever reaches old age."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me."

Barnaby C. Keeney, American Educator

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"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."

Quentin Crewe, British Journalist

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"What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?"

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"Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common."

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"I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along."

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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

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"The future and eternity are two entirely different things."

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"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."

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"Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again."

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"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog."

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"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

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"If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window."

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