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" In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself. "

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" The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. "

" Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. "

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" 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. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security. "

" 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. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun. "

" I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin. "

" Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man. "

" Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. "

" I remember looking up wrestling schools at the age of 10, and I emailed so many people. The responses were that I had to be 16 or 18 to train, and that was a bummer. "

" 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. "

" A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing. "

" A man growing old becomes a child again. "

" Being seventy is not a sin. "

" It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. "

" Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always will be - and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it's always there. "

George Harrison

" Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese. "

" Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. "

" Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. "

" I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. "

" Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. "

" There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. "

" My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. "

Abraham Lincoln

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

Thomas Jefferson

" This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age. "

" I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96. "

" There is one thing on which most athletes and experts seem to agree. If you want to be an elite athlete, good nutrition at a young age is an important place to start. "

" You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. "

Self-Confidence

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

" If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. "