"I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain."
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"If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable."
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"I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age."
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"I started tennis around age 2."
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"When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age."
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"I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve."
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"old folks is the nation."
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"Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving."
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"…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror."
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"Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last."
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"Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly."
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"Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate."
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"No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day."
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"I don't want to age myself."
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"I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age."
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"This is not yet a scientific age."
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"I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty."
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"In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it."
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"In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check."
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"Get a grip, Dad. I'm not going to do anything you wouldn't do at my age.' He stands up and says, 'That's it. You're canceling this date."
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