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" 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. "

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" I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world. "

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" That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people. "

" The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule. "

" Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age. "

" In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. "

" There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. "

" I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important. "

" It is not how old you are, but how you are old. "

" It is not well to make great changes in old age. "

" I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger. "

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

" Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. "

" 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. "

" Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. "

" Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. "

" I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. "

" Age is not our fault. "

" The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. "

" There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. "

" Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. "

" No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. "

" Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. "

" Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. "

" Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader. "

" I must confess, I was born at a very early age. "

" No man is ever old enough to know better. "

" 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. "

" If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate. "

" No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. "

" 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. "