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"Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box."
"We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is."
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
"In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else."
"It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders."
"I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies."
"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."
"While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old."
"Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade."
"It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."
"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."
"There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy."
"After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others."
"Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad."
"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."
"I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation."
"This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk."
"I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now."
"Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age."
"We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness."
