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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.

 

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

 

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Pearl S. Buck:
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

 

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

 

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We are reformers in spring and summer

 

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We as for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

 

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diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

 

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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser

 

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How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

 

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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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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

 

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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

 

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Though an old man I am but a young gardener.

 

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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

 

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I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

 

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

 

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In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.

 

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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

 

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

 

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Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.