"Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives."
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"Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect."
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"At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead."
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"You can imagine the kind of dinner parties I had to go to at a young age... pretty dull."
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"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."
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"All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'"
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"In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love."
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"As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop."
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"In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the Slow philosophy is taking the time to do things properly, and thereby enjoy them more."
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"We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance."
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"That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages."
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"The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age."
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"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
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"Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning."
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"Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age."
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"I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty."
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"I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries."
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"The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime."
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"I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it."
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"The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution."
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