"Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain."
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"If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman."
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"By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate."
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"Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits."
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"When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons."
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"No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another."
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"Old men are always young enough to learn with profit."
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"At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets."
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"Long-term meditators can have a biological age 5 to 12 years younger than their chronological age."
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"It tickles me, my daughter said that to me. She said, "Mommie, why is it that every time they say your name they put your age right behind it?""
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"I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens."
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"The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old."
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"The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice."
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"I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age."
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"One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you."
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"Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age."
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"The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish."
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"Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing."
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"In 1990, one in 10 children died before the age of five. That's now down to one in 20, and vaccines were the single biggest factor in that. Had it stayed at 10 percent, 122 million more children would have died."
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"Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years."
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