"To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion."
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"Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else."
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"Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family."
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"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."
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"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
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"Old age is by nature rather talkative."
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"George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?"
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"The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists."
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"That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds."
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"To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better."
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"Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can rend the shrine In which its vermeil splendours shine."
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"The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace."
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"We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."
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"...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved."
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"Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything."
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"A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time - not Hercules, Orpheus, Ulysses and Aeneas - but Superman, Captain Marvel, and Batman."
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"Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love."
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"Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh."
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"Age for me is just a number."
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"I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines."
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