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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

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These fragments I have shored against my ruins

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At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

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The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

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After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

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Our relationship with alcohol is a hologram for how human beings relate to the natural world. When you get to that level of brown liquor - an age distillate of a fermented thing, grain that we learned how to plant and make grow - it is in some ways the best expression of what humans are able to do. Nobody else can make that! And it's delicious.

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

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I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

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Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

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We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

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