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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting… — William Lyon Phelps
It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans. — John B. Larson
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that… — Edward Albee
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I have seen some terrifically exciting changes with young players coming into the squad which is reinvigorated. The older players and the whole group has… — Greg Chappell
I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me… — Keith Miller
And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about what you know.… — Larry Coryell
And so, a prediction, and my heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. YOU… — George Saunders
As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that… — Ross Macdonald
The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation… — Ted Olson
The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones. — Giuliano Amato
As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life. — Robert Caro
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great… — Robert Caro
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older. — Frank Shorter
I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better… — Darren Aronofsky
The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour — Beryl Bainbridge
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. — Delia Ephron
And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made… — Amy Irving
The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued… — Abraham Lincoln
Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views… — James M. Barrie
The older I get, the more I believe that at the bottom of most deep mathematical problems there is a combinatorial problem. — Israel Gelfand
A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress… — Marshall McLuhan
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to… — Robert Bly
Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine… — Harper Lee
I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven, — Anselm Kiefer

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