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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"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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"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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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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"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."
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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"For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles."
Life
"Every actor wants to direct."
Actor
"I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go."
Tradition
"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
Perception
"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."
Travel
"No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation."
Time
"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."
Age
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
Hope
"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
History
"We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory."
Age
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