"Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor."
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"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
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"And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!"
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"I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it."
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"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."
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"I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti."
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"We can't reach old age by another man's road."
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"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it"
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"The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties."
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"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."
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"Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!"
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"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."
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"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs."
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"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."
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"I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me."
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"50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?"
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"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
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"I think I'm finally growing up - and about time."
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"I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff."
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"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
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