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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
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A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.
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A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
inaugurele rede 14-8-1947 -
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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Actually, it doesn't matter - Krishna or Christ - the name is the same. The main point is to follow the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures that recommend chanting the name of God in this age.
Bhaktivedanta Vedabase (2003) -
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
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