"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
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"Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in."
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"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."
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"I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling."
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"If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that."
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"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
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"I am in the prime of senility."
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"The restful alertness response reverses the aging process."
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"Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine."
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"Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging."
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"Biological age is the key component of the aging process."
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"Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face."
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"Even though we all have genetic predispositions, our health and aging aren't predetermined."
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"We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it."
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"We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest."
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"I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
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"...there is no old age of the soul."
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"Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability."
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"Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage."
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"You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly."
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