"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

Age, Maturity

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"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Age, Aging, Virginity, Wisdom, Respect

"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Age, Business, Dad, Cows

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

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"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

Tom Hanks, American Actor

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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll."

Ben Harper, American Musician

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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

Attitude

"We're actors. We're the opposite of people."

People

"There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you want to put on it. You're committed. You don't have to prove anything. In fact you can afford a little neglect, indulge in a little bit of sarcasm here and there, isolate yourself when you want to. Underneath it's concrete for life. I'm a cow in some ways, but you're an idiot."

Relationship

"I write out of my intellectual experience."

Creativity

"I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education."

Education

"Uncertainty is the normal state."

Philosophy

"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."

Truth

"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."

Philosophy

"A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself."

Philosophy

"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."

Morality