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" I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game. "

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" As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem. "

Naveen Jain

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Children

Father

" We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. "

" Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Truth

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Age

" Being healthy is something I learned from a very young age. Looking after yourself on the inside helps with your energy, makes your skin glow, and changes your whole outlook on life. "

" 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. "

William James

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Age

" I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab. "

" It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. "

" In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. "

Marshall McLuhan

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Moving

" Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. "

Hugh Hefner

Women

Young

" An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. "

" The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. "

Hume Cronyn

Age

Older

" Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

" I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly. "

" When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians. "

" Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Old Age

Long

Age

" 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. "

" Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. "

" Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit. "

" I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. "

" I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. "

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

" A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. "

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

" Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. "

" Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. "

" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "

" With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. "

" Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. "

" In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28. "

" Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations. "