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"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
Media
"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
Driving
"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."
Society
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
Nation
"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father."
Family
"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth."
Change
"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
Conscience
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."
Travel
"I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society."
Life
"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"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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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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Personal Development
"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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Personal Development
"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."
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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."
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