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" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "

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" At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man. "

" One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits. "

" Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. "

" I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.' "

" Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age. "

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" Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier. "

" Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. "

" I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.' "

" 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. "

" When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal. "

" I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age. "

" If youth knew; if age could. "

" The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. "

" Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. "

Bertrand Russell

" At the age of thirty-seven, I was fat, and since the age of thirty-eight, I have never been fat again. That's the whole idea of effective weight loss - it's permanent because it's part of your lifestyle and the way you think about yourself, with pride and a sense of accomplishment. The goal you achieve is your own - you own it. "

" Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. "

" Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. "

" The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. "

" I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine. "

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" To expose the hardships experienced by children who are deprived of the right to attend school, Camfed has produced a series of films about educational exclusion. 'Every Child Belongs in School' provides a glimpse into the lives of children who have been forced by poverty to leave school at a very young age and take a difficult life path. "

" To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. "

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" Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. "

" The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it. "

" What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. "

Brigitte Bardot

" At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history. "

" I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age. "

" It's always refreshing to step into another time. "

" Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do. "

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

Malala Yousafzai

" Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. "