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" I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s. "
Bob Barker
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" Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. "
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" Every age has its happiness and troubles. "
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" The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids. "
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" When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life. "
Sam Smith
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" The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. "
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" In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. "
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" To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble. "
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" Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "
James Joyce
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" After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. "
Franco Harris
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" Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. "
Ogden Nash
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" The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. "
David Ogilvy
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" I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. "
Elijah Wood
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" To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. "
Bernard Baruch
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" I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old. "
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" At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own - you own it. "
Jean Nidetch
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" From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life! "
Michael Foreman
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" Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age. "
Aung San Suu Kyi
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" Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. "
Oprah Winfrey
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" As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is. "
Jane Goodall
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" For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. "
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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" Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. "
Andy Grove
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" 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. "
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" People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. "
Florence King
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" Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them. "
Ariana Grande
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" Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. "
Ang Lee
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" Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. "
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" It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one. "
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" Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. "
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" I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age. "
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