"Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent."

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"Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent."

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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."

William James, American Philosopher

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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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."

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