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  • Tryon Edwards Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Muhammad Ali Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Barry McGuire Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All diseases run into one. Old age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gore Vidal All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Billy Graham All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bill Medley All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barry Humphries Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
    Op Broadway in Dame Edna Back With A Vengeance 2004
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • George Santayana America is a young country with an old mentality.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Camille Paglia American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bayard Taylor An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Plutarch An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Robert Bresson An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Harry Houdini An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Benjamin Franklin An old young man, will be a young old man.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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