“To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.”
— John Mayer
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“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.”
— Pearl S. Buck
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“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”
— Muhammad Ali
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“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”
— Walter Scott
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“There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.”
— Marvin Hamlisch
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“It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.”
— Julie Walters
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“Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.”
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
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“At my age flowers scare me.”
— George Burns
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“We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.”
— Fred Allen
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“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
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