"Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age."
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"Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when the daimonic is expressed in its most destructive form."
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"The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life."
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"One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed."
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"At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet."
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"This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over."
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"I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas."
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"I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question."
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"Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books."
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"Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read"
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"It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch."
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"This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order."
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"The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love."
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"Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age."
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"Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure."
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"This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living."
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"When I go to the movies, and I have to sit through ten previews of films that look [alike] and tell the whole story, you know that we've reached an age of consensus. And consensus is the worst thing for us. We all agree to agree. That's where we lose it as a culture. We have to move away from that."
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"I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncertainty."
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"In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird."
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"From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience."
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