"At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."
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"The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages."
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"What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire."
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"The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn."
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"Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you."
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
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"Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will."
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"The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize."
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"There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives."
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"The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity."
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"Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization."
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"It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."
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"This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age."
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"My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom."
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"At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world."
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"It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose."
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"My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure."
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"The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals."
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"The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge."
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"Reckless youth makes rueful age."
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