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" So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet. "

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" Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. "

" India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. "

" Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end. "

" What is an adult? A child blown up by age. "

Simone de Beauvoir

" Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old. "

" One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. "

Suzanne Collins

" Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. "

" Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. "

" My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them. "

Marjane Satrapi

" You don't let a historic site rot. "

" We seem to live in an age where we are quietly appalled by the idea of appetites, whether they be for sex, food or diamonds. "

" It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets. "

" Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. "

" He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. "

" Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. "

" Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. "

" I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. "

Emily Dickinson

" What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. "

" Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. "

" As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really? "

" My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that. "

Amar'e Stoudemire

" When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed. "

Walter Cronkite

" Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. "

Booth Tarkington

" One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. "

" Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. "

" Chinese people age overnight. "

Karl Pilkington

" 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. "

George Hickenlooper

" The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential. "

Paul Di Filippo