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" Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. "

Albert Einstein

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" I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me. "

" Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. "

Charlotte Bronte

" When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you. "

Michael Winterbottom

" We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. "

" Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age. "

" After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces. "

" If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. "

Albert Einstein

" I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.' "

" Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. "

Albert Einstein

" I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people. "

Stephane Hessel

" Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. "

" Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. "

Charles Kingsley

" My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that? "

" In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high. "

" Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today. "

" We women, we're always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It's also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I'm not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available. "

" You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. "

" I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine. "

Magdalena Neuner

" Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn't thinking about giving someone a kidney. How do you ever repay someone for something like that? You can't. It's not like borrowing $20 from someone and telling them you're going to give it back. It's something that you can never repay someone for. "

" Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

" Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation. "

" It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's. "

" Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. "

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" 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. "

" Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. "

Frederick Jackson Turner

" At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. "

Helen Gurley Brown

" Adults are obsolete children. "