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" Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root. "

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" Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. "

" To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

" I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor. "

" In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. "

" At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes. "

" I've always been involved with the performing arts from a young age. "

" Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think. "

" As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. "

" Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point. "

" Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress. "

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

" Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. "

" I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special. "

John Paul DeJoria

" In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. "

Mary Wollstonecraft

" In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. "

" There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate. "

" You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. "

" Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children. "

" When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all. "

" In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment. "

" Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. "

Navjot Singh Sidhu

" Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. "

" It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort. "

" Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. "

Geoffrey Chaucer

" From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life. "

" I am now in the full maturity of my age and vigor of my mind. Persons of various descriptions have repeatedly solicited me to turn my mind to dramatical composition. It was, indeed, the first amusement of my thoughts in my school-boy cell. "

" Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. "

Martha Gellhorn

" The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say? "