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Age Quotes
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did."
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"Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness."
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"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth."
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
13
"Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system."
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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character."
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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."
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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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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."
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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
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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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"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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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."
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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."
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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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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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