"I am young and beautiful... at every age."
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"I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition."
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"Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30."
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"Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society."
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"The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror."
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"Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own."
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"The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens."
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"I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society."
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"The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman."
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"But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves."
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"At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it."
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"If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful."
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"Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life."
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"Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option."
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"In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere."
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"I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues."
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"The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures."
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"Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17"
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"Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?"
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"Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age."
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