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" 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

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" Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine. "

" No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. "

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" If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. "

" Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

Albert Einstein

" I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14. "

" I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. "

" Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place. "

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" We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. "

" We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly. "

" One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology. "

" Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere. "

" I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested. "

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" Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending. "

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" It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation. "

Maria Montessori

" I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan. "

" I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams. "

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" While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

" An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. "

" 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

" If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option. "

" My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed. "

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" Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. "

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" Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. "

" Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. "

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