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" People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. "

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" Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. "

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Technology

" After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces. "

Rhys Darby

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" To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. "

" Love has no age, no limit; and no death. "

" There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. "

" A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. "

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Growing Old

Age

Man

" My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it. "

" We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely. "

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

" Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. "

" 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. "

" Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. "

" The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location. "

" A man growing old becomes a child again. "

" I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. "

" 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. "

" My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. "

" Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. "

" Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. "

" If youth knew; if age could. "

" I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible. "

" Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. "

" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "

" True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. "

" I think I've really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38. "

" At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework. "

" Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently. "

" A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. "

" I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it. "

" 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. "