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" Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. "

Alexander Hamilton

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" In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. "

Marshall McLuhan

" For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. "

" Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. "

G. Stanley Hall

" High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. "

" Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. "

" I think love can happen at any age... it has no age. "

" Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

Albert Einstein

" Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. "

Christopher Lasch

" I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. "

" In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. "

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

" I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now. "

" At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. "

" It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. "

Bertrand Russell

" Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy. "

" At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us. "

" The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. "

Logan Pearsall Smith

" The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise. "

" 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

" Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. "

" My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily. "

Kailash Satyarthi

" It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. "

" 'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an imagined story about Loretta Young; Clark Gable; Alda, a young woman with a secret who is preparing to become a nun but is cast out of her convent; and the scenic artist she meets on the set of 'The Call of the Wild.' It's a big, lush historical novel. "

Adriana Trigiani

" I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. "

Christine Lahti

" Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I think my mom thought I was ready for the German chocolate cake that she makes for my dad. Just the sight of that, the taste of that frosting, just reminds me of being at home with my mom and my dad and my sister and my friends. "

" Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. "

" In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air. "

" The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. "

Mary Wollstonecraft