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George Burns

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Lindsay Lohan

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Marshall McLuhan

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Debra Winger

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Jeanne Moreau

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Jean Paul

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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
— Mark Twainage
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
— Henry Fordage
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
— Mark Twainage
"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
— Kurt Vonnegutage
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
— Robert Frostage
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
— Andrew Carnegieage

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"Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress."

-Lois Wyse

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"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?"

-Dennis Prager

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"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."

-Desiderius Erasmus

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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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"People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve."

-Christopher Hitchens

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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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"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

-Jean Paul

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"God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

-John Donne

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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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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

-Jonathan Swift

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"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."

-Jonathan Swift

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"I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere."

-George Burns

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"I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me."

-Paul Cezanne

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"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life."

-Paul Cezanne

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"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."

-Rita Rudner

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"From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked."

-Tom Stoppard

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"The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance."

-E. B. White

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"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."

-Isabel Allende

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"The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number."

-Dave Barry

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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"In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose."

-Richard M. Nixon

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"Age does not matter if the matter does not age."

-Jean Paul

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"I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth."

-David Bowie

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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."

-David Herbert Lawrence

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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

-David Herbert Lawrence

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"Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives."

-Doug Coupland

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"One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave."

-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

-Theodor Adorno

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"I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion."

-Paul Cezanne

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