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"The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up."
"Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps."
"Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with."
"In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful."
"Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age."
"The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak."
"My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'"
"A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner."
"I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience."
"Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space."
"My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all."
"I'm just the same age I've always been."
"The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict...(a) treatment of cancer."
"Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research laboratories which do not conform to the viewpoint of medical associations."
"(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions."
"Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality."
"We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow."
"It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in."
"The Golden Age was never the present age."
"It is always the season for the old to learn."
