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“Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.”

Humans Play Feelings Age Faces Surface Tricks Visible Mask Repressed Human Faces

Book:I

Source: I

“People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.”

People Different Country Seems Age Passion Process Exercise Horror Aging Rate California Diets Popularity Surgery Cosmetics Cosmetic Surgery Diet And Exercise

Book:E

Source: E

“Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.”

Looks Stills Age Old Age Vitamins

Author:Rita Hayworth

“Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.”

Age Prosperity Careful Disciple

Author:Hildegard Knef

“Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.”

Made Age Moving Interest Generations Groups Stage Citizens Target Adolescence Senior Artifacts Midlife Senior Citizen Stages Of Life Interest Groups

Author:Jill Lepore

“Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.”

Men May Doe Age Literature Higher Competitors

Book:The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History

Source: The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History

“How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!”

Age Strange Old Age

Book:Old Rose and Silver

Source: Old Rose and Silver

“When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.”

Needs Age Old Age Hills Summit

Book:Old Rose and Silver

Source: Old Rose and Silver

“On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.”

Way Firsts Looks Age Journey Losing Concern Old Age Traveled Remorse

Book:The Master's Violin

Source: The Master's Violin

“There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.”

Two Age Women Taken Periods Ninety Sixteen

Book:A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)

Source: A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)

“Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.”

Age Young Certain Talent Sat

Author:Liza Cody

“What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.”

Done Seems Age Aging

Book:More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

“Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.”

Age Easy Guilt Unexpected Weed Sprouts Unexpected Places

Book:More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

“Empire of Deception is a sure thing--a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has found a fascinating yet little-known jazz-age tale and told it with style and smarts. Get in on the action.”

Littles Book Age Action Found Known Rich Style Smart Jazz Tales Deception Fascinating Empires Dean Sure Thing Jazz Age

Author:Jonathan Eig

“For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.”

Mean Dream Reality Age Today Poor Millions Growing Economic Sick Old Age Nightmare Retirement Housing Growing Old Being Sick

Book:Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life

Source: Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life

“My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.”

Men Humans Children Age Time Change Race Lows Bored Human Race Boredom More Time Sections Threshold

Book:It's only me: pieces from a column

Source: It's only me: pieces from a column

“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope.”

Men Important Book Reality Age Spiritual Spirit Nations Wealth Civilization Built Mere Inspired Collections Fiber Physical Strength

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.”

People Art Shows Light Age Painting Drama Embrace Intellect Architecture Welcome Decoration Handmaids

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.”

Long Made Two Age Poor Player Greatness Son Curiosity Vain Sand Tides Long Ago Asia Greece Rivals Footprint Passed Away Athens Avon

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.”

Way Humans Ideas War Age Human Beings Higher Consequence Sake Welcome Honour Heroism Search For Knowledge

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.”

“I'm too young to be this old.”

Age Young Old Age

Author:Mimi Sheraton

“Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.”

Humans Long Age Civilization Scientist Ancient Scholar Advent Ancient Egypt Atlantis Human Civilization

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate.”

People States Age Earth Planets Easier Thousand Hundred Harmony Ancient Purity Sublime Our Planet Living On Auras Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.”

Made Age Earth Secret Meditation Conditions Lows Ideals Ancient Population Technique Purity Discovering Auras Ancient Egypt Density Atlantis Population Density

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.”

World Age Saws Enlightenment Ancient Planes Indigenous Ancient Egypt Chic Atlantis Techno

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The members of the Mystery school, during the time of Atlantis, had psychically seen the subsequent ages of darkness.”

Age School Darkness Mystery Members Ancient Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The vibratory toxicity of these subsequent ages would make it impossible for reincarnating members of the Order to go deeply enough into their other memories, without the secret techniques first.”

Firsts Enough Age Order Memories Secret Impossible Members Ancient Technique Toxicity Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished”

Age School Culture Greater Mystery Civilization Thirds Ancient Chinese Indian Humankind Tibetan Egyptian Ancient Egypt Atlantis Egyptian Civilization

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“It's a pity we're still officially living in an age called the Holocene. The Anthropocene - human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth - is already an undeniable reality.”

Humans Stills Reality Age Earth Process Climate Change Pity Chemicals Dominance

Author:Paul J. Crutzen

“Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!”

Thinking Ideas Seems Age Individual Special Youth Folks Accomplishment

Book:Like One of The Family

Source: Like One of The Family

“belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.”

Children Age Parent Middle Youth Habit Caution Persistent Vitality Middle Ages Compensation Small Child Timidity Maternity Belated

Author:Vera Brittain

“I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.”

Bigs Age Lasts Young Games Goal Baseball Strikes Score Hockey Young Age Counting Teammate Baseball Games Playing Baseball Lacrosse Playing Hockey

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.”

Way Age Middle Identity Feminist Boring Witch Middle Ages Respectable Anarchist Alarms Pagan Sinking Identifying General Public

Author:Starhawk

“The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.”

People Made Age Religious Knowing Seeing Son China Old Age Chinese Odor

Book:The Man Who Loved Children

Source: The Man Who Loved Children

“Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.”

Age Decision Old Age

Book:The Man Who Loved Children

Source: The Man Who Loved Children

“Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.”

Age Black Crime Hair Greed Old Age Maturity Gray Avarice Gray Hair

Author:Mary Collyer

“[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.”

Facts Seems Age Information Movement Information Age

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“Youth is thy gift, - the youth that baffles Time.”

Age Youth

Book:The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton ...

Source: The Poems and Sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton ...

“It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.”

Long Age Law Growth Products Glory Roots Soil English Law

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”

“Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.”

Age Dark Europe Islam Dark Ages Torches

Author:Mahmud Tarzi

“Although age has its normal limits, it may be extended by two things-the study of history and by travel. Reading history broadens one's perception of the creation of the world, while travel extends one's field of vision.”

World May Two Age Reading Vision Study Creation Fields Limits Normal Perception Two Things Creation Of The World Reading History

Author:Mahmud Tarzi

“It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. "Miss March" is, to use the vernacular of the escapist moviegoer, the biggest pile of crap I've seen in ages.”

Use Age Missing Equal Entertainment March Crap Recognizing Vernacular Escapists

Author:Stephanie Zacharek

“By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.”

Writing Years Wells Age Literature Nine Contemporary Thirty Honour Translations Polish Thirty Years Thorough Thorough Knowledge

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.”

Thinking Age Found Sex Grows Parent Growing Up Coming Of Age Cabbage

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.”

People Age Certain Crazy Filters Crazy People

Author:Michaela Watkins

“the only real time as far as Buddhism is concerned is right now. Right now there is no old age or death because old age and death are descriptions of things as they are now when we compare them to things as they used to be.”

Real Age Death Used Time Buddhism Right Now Concerned Old Age Used To Be Compare Description

Book:Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

Source: Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

“Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.”

Shows Light Age Distance Old Age Landscape Smooth Purple Mellow

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.”

Humans Age Past Flower Future Opening Golden Human Experience Eden Golden Age Gethsemane

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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