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"Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues."
"Many foxes grow gray but few grow good."
"I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track."
"I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane."
"When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation."
"You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it."
"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."
"These fragments I have shored against my ruins"
"Age considers; youth ventures."
"Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70."
"Age is not based on chronology, but psychology."
"India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples."
"The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors."
"I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18."
"Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot."
"On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642"
"The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is actually the right to destroy the city."
"Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age."
"Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events."
"I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming."
