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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."
"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.'"
"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion."
"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."
"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."
"There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe."
"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."
"My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world."
"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
"The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
"Gotta get it, even if it's in the worse way. Got cake like everyday my birthday."
"Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now."
"All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers."
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness."
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
"The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person."
"A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure."
"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology."
"Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you."
