Age Quotes
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In every age and clime we seeTwo of a trade can never agree.
John Gay
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Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.
Eric Kandel
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I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
Bela Lugosi
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Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim
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After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
Isaac D'Israeli
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We shall know that the Almost Perfect State is here when the kind of old age each person wants is possible to him. Of course, all of you may not want the kind we want . . . some of you may prefer prunes and morality to the bitter end.
Don Marquis
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I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.
David O. Russell
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We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.
Haile Selassie
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Beverly Sills
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Democracy will win - because a government’s legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.
Barack Obama
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.
Kiefer Sutherland
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Mary McCarthy
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I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'
Dennis Haysbert
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I learned at that young age that sometimes a really big chance pays off.
Bob Parsons
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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.
Jamaica Kincaid
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
Marcus Aurelius
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The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
Andrew Carnegie
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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
Mason Cooley
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Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.
Archy Ivan Marshall
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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.
Oprah Winfrey
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The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.
Sarah Ferguson
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I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.
Ann-Margret