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" The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. "
Havelock Ellis
Age
Mechanical
Mercy
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" 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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" Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. "
Bob Hope
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" Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age. "
Sherwin B. Nuland
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" My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all. "
Abraham Lincoln
Animals
Wild
Father
" There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability. "
Sharron Angle
Life
Value
Plan
" It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn. "
Samantha Stosur
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You
People
" I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage. "
Iman
She
Age
Confidence
" I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor. "
Joe Alwyn
Actor
Young
Table
" I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down. "
Gautam Gambhir
Cricket
End
Age
" When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. "
Maria Montessori
Age
Child
Fitness
" From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that. "
David Lindsay-Abaire
Age
Conflict
Kind
" My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy. "
Donald Trump
Parents
Mother
Age
" As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is. "
Jane Goodall
Think
Age
Anger
" I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in. "
Lou Holtz
Life
Hope
Think
" 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?' "
Peter Sis
Flowers
Book
People
" I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty. "
Karin Slaughter
Set
Age
Book
" Every age has its happiness and troubles. "
Jeanne Calment
Troubles
Happiness
Every
" Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother. "
Peter Jurasik
Said
Mother
Born
" We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think there's any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that. "
Guy Gavriel Kay
Eyes
Doubt
Think
" 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
View
You
Optimism
" It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no Chiclets. "
Evelyn Lauder
Important
Smile
You
" It doesn't surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body. "
Monica Bellucci
Looking
Age
Woman
" In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters. "
Eduardo Galeano
Drones
Never
Names
" Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. "
Booth Tarkington
Old Age
Birthday
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
Handsome
Perfect
I Am
" Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. "
Eleanor Roosevelt
Age
Enough
Never
" I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet! "
Tina Turner
Will
Become
Never
" It's rough being a teenager in this day and age. "
Kay Panabaker
Being
Rough
Being A Teenager
" The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12. "
Lionel Sosa
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Rich
Republican
" I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life. "
Ted Cruz
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