"When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill."
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"My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist."
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"In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent."
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"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality."
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"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
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"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."
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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."
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"Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire; nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honor and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement."
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"I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age"
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"Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer."
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"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
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"The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings."
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"Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new."
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"Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese."
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"I've had an entrepreneurial mindset from a young age and I've been interested in companies and products that are a little bit different."
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"Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age."
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"[ Age Of Trump] was something that I really wanted to do, and I also really wanted it to feel evergreen, so we made a lot of attempts not to bog it down in the campaign fight, even though we were right in the middle of that. I wanted it to be something that could live on and be a conversation piece long after this inauguration, whoever it was going to be."
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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."
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"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
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"Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better."
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