"On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else."
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"[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young."
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"I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are."
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"You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk."
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"Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it."
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"I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward"
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"Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light."
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"gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary."
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"For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was."
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"It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely."
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"Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration."
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"I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet."
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"Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting."
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"Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die."
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"I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader."
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"And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them."
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"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous."
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"Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?"
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"It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded."
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"I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute."
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