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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News -
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.
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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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Those who love not their fellowbeings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
Alastor -
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, it does from childisness.
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
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To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
The Observer, 21 August 1955Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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