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" My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. "

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

" We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. "

" I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible. "

" Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. "

" I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor. "

" 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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" Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. "

" He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. "

" Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away. "

" There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability. "

" Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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" Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. "

Ernest Hemingway

" The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook. "

George M. Church

" American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. "

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" I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. "

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

" If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. "

" It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know? "

" I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. "

" Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives. "

" 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. "

" Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. "

" When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. "

" I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. "

" Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. "

" I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules. "

" I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people. "

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" 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