"A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age."
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"If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse."
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"You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die."
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"The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself"."
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"Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color."
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"People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age..."
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"The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation."
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"I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it."
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"Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."
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"I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss."
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"Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances."
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"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."
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"Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub."
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"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."
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"My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more."
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"You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it."
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"Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components."
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"The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life."
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