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  • Robert Browning Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Anthony Powell Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • André Maurois Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Doug Horton Growing old is not growing up.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Bobby Orr Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Max Lerner Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Gene Fowler He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Victor Hugo He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Beth Ditto Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht High above the lake a bomber flies.
    From the rowing boats
    Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance
    They appear like young starlings, their beaks
    Wide open for food.
    Poems, 1913-1956 This Summers Sky [Der Himmel dieses Sommers], (195
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ben Bernanke High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Beth Ditto High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • John A. Hannah Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
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  • Marquis de Sade Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Arthur Golden Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • John Burroughs How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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