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" The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. "

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" I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it. "

" If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. "

" 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. "

" People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?' "

" It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. "

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" How young can you die of old age? "

" Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. "

" When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians. "

Theodor Mommsen

" I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. "

" Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. "

Geoffrey Chaucer

" The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. "

" Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. "

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

" Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre. "

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

" This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. "

Charlotte Bronte

" Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed. "

" Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. "

" It was a melting pot in Las Vegas. You got every age level, every ethnic background, every social aura - it was an absolute Americana audience... people who were there to celebrate occasions; people who were there to gamble; people who were there because they were awed by the whole Vegas operation. Tourists. "

" Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. "

" In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies. "

" Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. "

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

" The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. "

" The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. "

George Edward Woodberry

" I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old. "

" The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea. "

" There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. "