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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Andre Gide

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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Joseph Addison

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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Albert Ellis

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In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Francis Schaeffer

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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf

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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

Lady Gaga

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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

George Burns

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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

E. B. White

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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

Dave Barry

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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Martha Gellhorn

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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Jonathan Swift

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A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Liz Carpenter

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Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Jerry Saltz

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I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Jimmy Buffett

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At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

Lena Dunham

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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Martha Beck

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Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

James Buchan

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There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

James Buchan

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With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.

Chris Brown

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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Robert Browning

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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Rita Mae Brown

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So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

Gary Oldman

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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Edmond de Goncourt

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There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Christopher Walken

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The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

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One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

Colin Firth

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It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

Ralph Lauren

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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

– Christian Nestell Bovee –

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