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" The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. "

Charles Dickens

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" I would never bet against Peyton Manning. You know about the age and the neck and the strength. But I had George Blanda, and as he got older, he got smarter, and he just got rid of the ball quicker. I watch Peyton, and I see George Blanda. "

" I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations. "

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" Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. "

" I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding. "

" Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china. "

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" I get all fired up about aging in America. "

" You should never reveal your true age. "

" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. "

" My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. "

" In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. "

" Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. "

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" We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take. "

" There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that. "

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

" Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. "

" The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself. "

" When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you. "

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" When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life. "

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

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" It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know? "

" Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. "

" 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. "

" What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. "

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" With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview. "

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" If youth knew; if age could. "

" Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. "

" Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. "

" Age considers; youth ventures. "

Rabindranath Tagore