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" One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. "

Malcolm Muggeridge

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" Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. "

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" The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. "

" Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?' "

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" I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams. "

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" Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. "

" It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. "

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" It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. "

" By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce. "

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" The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we? "

" America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean. "

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" We pay when old for the excesses of youth. "

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" In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Age carries all things away, even the mind. "

" Being healthy is something I learned from a very young age. Looking after yourself on the inside helps with your energy, makes your skin glow, and changes your whole outlook on life. "

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" The information age has ushered in a networked and interdependent world, one in which challenges and opportunities appear and disappear faster than traditional organizational models can manage. "

" We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, where these incredible roles were written for women like Joan Crawford, like Bette Davis. But then there was a space of time where - I don't know why - it wasn't like that. It became difficult for women to find certain roles after a certain age. "

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" Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. "

Albert Einstein

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" Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. "

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