"Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave."
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"I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan."
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"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."
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"There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful."
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"I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves."
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"The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older."
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"The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans."
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"They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years."
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"If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print."
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"We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common."
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"Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning."
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"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."
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"How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible."
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"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."
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"Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God."
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"In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force."
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"The evening of life brings with it its lamps."
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"I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be."
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"The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age."
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"A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age."
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