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

Magdalena Neuner

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" 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. "

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

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" One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. "

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

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" My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age. "

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" The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. "

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" I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast. "

Michael Weatherly

" The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. "

" Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night. "

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

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

" For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive. "

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" Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show. "

" It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work. "

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" It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age. "

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" At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus. "

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" We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. "

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change. "

" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "

" I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' school is not brilliant on the boyfriend front later. Because when I went to university, it was definitely like meeting a new species of people. Suddenly, at age 19, I was thinking: 'Can you speak to these people?' I was very, very nervous. "

" For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. "

" My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. "

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