"I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace."
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"My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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"One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late."
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"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it."
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"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."
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"What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop."
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"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."
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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
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"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present."
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"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty."
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"Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end."
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"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."
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"Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30."
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"My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year."
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"You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty."
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"If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net."
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