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"Age is how we determine how valuable you are."

Jane Elliot, American Actress

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"Age is how we determine how valuable you are."

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

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"Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism."

"I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?"

"Age is how we determine how valuable you are."

"I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to."

"We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences."

"About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength."

"No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer."

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