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" Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. "
James Thurber
Age
Old Age
Man
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" Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. "
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" Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. "
D. H. Lawrence
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" 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
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" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "
Thomas Jefferson
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Age
" The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers. "
Kate Capshaw
Age
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Love
" On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as a 'uniter' in an age of 'dividers.' I experienced a political awakening that night. I watched as the hope that President Obama represented was tempered by the shocking passage of Proposition 8 by a majority of voters in California. "
Chelsea Manning
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Night
Hope
" The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Will
" Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security. "
Bill Flores
Retirement
Age
Security
" The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia? "
Joel Fuhrman
Risk
Age
Goal
" All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world? "
James Hillman
World
Today
Think
" It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast. "
Loretta Lynch
Fast
Age
Digital
" No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. "
Oscar Wilde
Age
Looks
Calculating
" My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age. "
Maria Montessori
Three
Education
Age
" No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12. "
Rowan Atkinson
Child
Age
Think
" After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. "
Franco Harris
Years
You
Age
" Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve. "
Christopher Hitchens
" Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. "
Mark Twain
You
Over
Matter
" 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. "
Aldous Huxley
Nothing
Changes
History
" It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. "
Alison Bechdel
Age
Character
Someone
" Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will. "
Lysander Spooner
Flower
Law
Age
" The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. "
William Wordsworth
Age
Leaves
Wise
" I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine. "
Magdalena Neuner
Nine
Knew
Age
" Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. "
James Thurber
Us
Forward
Anger
" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "
Henry Rollins
Risk
Life
Difficult
" There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. "
James Buchan
Age
Selling
Now
" Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. "
Ogden Nash
Meet
Age
People
" We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that. "
Guy Gavriel Kay
Eyes
Doubt
Think
" Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. "
Ernest Hemingway
Hesitation
Risk
Proportion
" The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook. "
George M. Church
Age
Rewards
Poverty
" I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it. "
Cathy Freeman
Knowledge
Relax
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