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Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Age

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

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1 Age

  • 1. Up until age 40 most men are just not as mature as women. So it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
  • 2. Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.
  • 3. In this age of media and Internet access we are much more talkative than ever before.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.
  • 2. To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.
  • 3. With fitness I do Bikrams hot yoga. The gym that I have in my building is amazing. I love to do cardio and weights there.

3 Anger

  • 1. All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
  • 2. The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
  • 3. I am ready to accept all accusations allegations anger – but I have to succeed.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 2. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 3. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.
  • 2. Even at the United Nations where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent one window not so great.
  • 3. People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course that's both liberating and alarming.
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