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" Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. "

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" Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. "

" Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. "

Donald G. Mitchell

" It was a melting pot in Las Vegas. You got every age level, every ethnic background, every social aura - it was an absolute Americana audience... people who were there to celebrate occasions; people who were there to gamble; people who were there because they were awed by the whole Vegas operation. Tourists. "

" The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations... In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk. "

William H. McRaven

" Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. "

" You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility. "

Christine Pelosi

" 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. "

" Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. "

" Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. "

" Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. "

" 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. "

" A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. "

" A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things. "

" When you age, you can do all kinds of roles. You don't have to look great. You can be the mom, the aunt. You can have a small part. You're an actor. "

" There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. "

" Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. "

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" Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. "

" Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all. "

" Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. "

Gustave Flaubert

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

" The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India. "

" Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. "

" 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. "

Charles Kingsley

" Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. "

" I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down. "

" The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we? "

" I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music. "

" 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. "