Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"Act your age, not your shoe size."
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Age
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Hippocrates
Physician
"All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."
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"If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains."
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"People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed."
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"The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals."
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"He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age"
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"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."
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"Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs."
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"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."
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"To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction."
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"She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age."
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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."
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"Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side."
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"Wherever you are, at whatever age, you're only a thought away from changing your life."
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"We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience."
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"You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion."
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"I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often."
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"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless."
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