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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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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 man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
In Defense of Women (1918) -
But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
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But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
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