"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young."
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"... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age."
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"Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of # movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death."
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"One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave."
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"We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we're living in, these tools surprise you. ... That's why I love what we do. Because we make these tools, and we're constantly surprised with what people do with them."
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"I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona."
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"Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal."
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"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."
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"They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another."
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"It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself."
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"In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest."
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"Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world."
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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."
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"Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing."
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"The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example."
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"It's a pity youth is wasted on the young."
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"When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change"
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"Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state."
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"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline"
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"Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior."
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