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"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."
Denis Diderot
"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."
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"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition."
Matthew Modine
"My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition."
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"It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws."
John Conyers
"It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws."
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"Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change."
Daniel Greenberg
"Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change."
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"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."
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"Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could."
Adam Rickitt
"Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could."
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"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."
William Cartwright
"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."
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"Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity."
William Manchester
"Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity."
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"I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me."
Mickey Gilley
"I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me."
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"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
Marshall McLuhan
"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning."
Armstrong Williams
"Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning."
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"But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20."
David Axelrod
"But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20."
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"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."
George Burns
"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."
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"To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone."
Earl Warren
"To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone."
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"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
Joyce Maynard
"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
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"One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave."
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave."
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"Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age."
Douglas Horton
"Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age."
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"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."
Peter Ustinov
"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."
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"I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in."
Francesca Annis
"I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in."
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"The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number."
Dave Barry
"The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number."
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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
Dorothy Thompson
"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
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"Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves."
Phyllis Diller
"Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves."
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"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."
John Ruskin
"Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand."
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"It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now."
Barbara Hershey
"It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now."
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"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."
Katherine Dunn
"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."
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"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
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"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."
Jean Paul
"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."
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"I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age."
Richard O'Brien
"I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age."
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"I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity."
John Lone
"I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity."
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"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
Victoria Abril
"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
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"When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age."
Eliza Dushku
"When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age."
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"A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good."
Gary Cole
"A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good."
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"Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age."
Robert Martin
"Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age."
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"I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."
Edward Koch
"I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot."
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"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it."
Lytton Strachey
"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it."
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"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."
Simon Raven
"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."
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"I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself."
Cameron Diaz
"I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself."
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"At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on."
Hermann Maier
"At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on."
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"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart."
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"Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly."
Candice Bergen
"Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly."
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"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."
Alison Bechdel
"It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair."
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"Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s."
Bill Rodgers
"Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s."
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"You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age."
Josh Schwartz
"You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age."
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"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."
Anne McCaffrey
"At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book."
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"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."
Jeremy Bentham
"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."
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"It is people's hearts that move the age."
Herbie Hancock
"It is people's hearts that move the age."
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"From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process."
Herman Kahn
"From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process."
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"The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age."
Paul Harris
"The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age."
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"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long."
A. J. P. Taylor
"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long."
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"And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor."
Kurt Masur
"And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor."
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