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" At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier. "

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" 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. "

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" I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going. "

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" The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself. "

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" I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. "

" I'm here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to make you want to read on, and I suppose I prefer you don't actually think about the 'how' at all - the writing technique, the 'style', or even who it is that's putting this together. "

" The fact that I've lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age... it's natural. This is why it annoys me when a person watches a movie and tells me that it was 'time pass.' Would time not have passed if he hadn't watched the film? "

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" Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences. "

" Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. "

" Some people say that you should read people who think completely differently from you so that everything you read and everything that they say is a challenge to you but there's something to be said for reading people where you think, 'Yes, that's how I would have said it if I could have found the words for it'. "

" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "

" The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. "

" My wife came here at age 8 not speaking a word of English and ended up in the president's Cabinet. "

" Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment. "

" No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. "

" 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. "

" I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. "

" Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. "

" You should never reveal your true age. "

" Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. "

" In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again. "

" The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. "

" I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged. "

" When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. "

" I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. "

" It is not how old you are, but how you are old. "

" Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? "

" What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. "

" I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. "

" I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together. "