"Every day in every way, I am increasing my mental and physical capacity. I am reversing my biological age."
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"If you could live in the moment, you would see the flavor of eternity and when you metabolize the experience of eternity, your body doesn't age."
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"Biological age is the key component of the aging process."
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"I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'"
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"I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it."
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"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age."
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"Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles."
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"In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected."
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"You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness."
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"What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack."
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""Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age" was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed OUT of the Stone Age."
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"If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive."
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"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it."
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"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect."
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"We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King?"
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"What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective."
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"My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully."
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"All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?"
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"Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese."
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"What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period."
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