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" Old age is a shipwreck. "

Charles de Gaulle

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Charles de Gaulle

" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "

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" Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces. "

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" Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security. "

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

" Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. "

" When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age. "

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" Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. "

" From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal. "

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" My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age. "

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" When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life. "

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Charles de Gaulle

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" Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. "

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" Youth is wasted on the young. "

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