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" Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox. "

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" I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. "

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Older

" As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. "

" It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me. "

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Good

Age

Time

" The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible. "

Maria Shriver

Age

Mother

" Dissents speak to a future age. "

" 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

Right

Danger

" 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. "

" Being seventy is not a sin. "

" Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic. "

" There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. "

" Age merely shows what children we remain. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Merely

Age

Remain

" From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat. "

" In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself. "

" Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. "

" I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings. "

" I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign. "

Karen Duffy

I Am

You

" Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age. "

" If God loves human beings and seeks to relate to them because he is drawn to something unique about them, then his love must be exclusive and cannot be universal. "

" Age considers; youth ventures. "

" When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. "

" After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. "

" Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. "

" The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. "

" To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble. "

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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Risk

Old Age

" I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. "

Stephen Fry

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Need

" The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. "

" Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. "

" I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride. "

" Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. "

" 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. "