"We tried not to age, but time had its rage."
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"it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why."
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"But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans."
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"I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music."
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"Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age."
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"Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave."
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"Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages."
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"Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways."
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"I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy."
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"There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun."
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"Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young."
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"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave."
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"I was very sexual from a very young age."
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"I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!"
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"I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages."
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"Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend."
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"I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better."
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"There is parallels these two great men John McCain and Ted Kennedy of great impact in the Senate, you don`t agree with everything they did but certainly they had major impacts as senators. Their one major political failure not to be elected president but that didn`t stop them from having enormous impact and at roughly the same age, exactly the same disease. It`s kind of a poignant sad parallel."
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"Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex."
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"In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing."
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