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" At my age flowers scare me. "
George Burns
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" In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment. "
Carl Honore
Health
Work
Slow
" I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.' "
Bill Hader
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Like
Comedy
" In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. "
Nelson Mandela
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White
Process
" Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one's own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people: to skin deer and build my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my options were limited. "
Michelle Paver
Children
Age
Child
" In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs. "
Richard Branson
Matter
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You
" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "
Nas
Age
Wisdom
Sense
" Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. "
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Age
Working
Known
" If youth knew; if age could. "
Sigmund Freud
Could
Youth
Knew
" Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male. "
Ashton Kutcher
Over
Age
Confident
" In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself. "
Lev Vygotsky
Play
Head
Behavior
" Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults. "
Tom Bodett
Age
Turn
Actual
" Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. "
Alanis Morissette
Weird
Thinking
Me
" I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine. "
Magdalena Neuner
Nine
Knew
Age
" Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. "
Samuel Ullman
Age
Soul
Old
" When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. "
Muriel Spark
Age
Old Age
Old
" Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. "
Philip Roth
Massacre
Battle
Age
" In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long. "
Pope Paul VI
Long
Youth
Age
" The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. "
H. L. Mencken
More
Distrust
Grow
" I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. "
Kirsten Dunst
Very
Ways
Age
" Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal. "
Ann Voskamp
Internet
Goal
Age
" The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. "
Colleen McCullough
You
Forty
Lovely
" Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. "
Erma Bombeck
Three
Dog
Strength
" I look back at 1993 or 1994 when I made it to the National Championships, and I was on used skates and handmade or borrowed costumes. But my mom was there every step of the way for me: she was the one traveling with me all over the world at age 13. "
Michelle Kwan
Age
Look
Me
" Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable. "
Ronald Reagan
World
Age
Hope
" It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance. "
Ellen Key
Age
Time
Great
" Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. "
William Feather
Women
Men
Lie
" Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I'm OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself. "
Leo Howard
Yourself
Age
Life
" I am a great believer that your humor is developed at a very early age, and it doesn't ever change. You're basically the same person forever, so you find the same stuff funny forever. "
James Bobin
Humor
Change
Age
" We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. "
John F. Kennedy
World
Self-Determination
War
" Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. "
Maya Angelou
Age
Loving
Someone