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" No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. "

Katharine Graham

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" At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence. "

" At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. "

Maria Montessori

" In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long. "

" 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. "

" There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. "

Michael Hutchence

" I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast. "

Michael Weatherly

" I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me. "

" Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. "

Bertrand Russell

" Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? "

" When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. "

" If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! "

" In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth. "

" If you're 90 and look good in a mini-skirt, go for it. What is 'age appropriate'? Such nonsense. My mother lived to 106, so what's middle-age? Seventy is the new 50. "

" At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week. "

" Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. "

" That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. "

" One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted. "

Katharine Graham

" But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance. "

" Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. "

" Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited. "

Katharine Graham

" My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid. "

" I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that. "

" The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. "

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" Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. "

" At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. "

" The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12. "

" We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. "