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"Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way."
"I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age."
"I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along."
"I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to"
"Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches."
"You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later."
"It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!"
"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."
"Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age."
"Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines."
"Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age."
"The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five."
"The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man"
"The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave."
"God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger."
"It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet."
"I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone."
"Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages."
"For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity."
"The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought."
