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I was cursed or blessed with a prolonged adolescence; I arrived at

I was cursed or blessed with a prolonged adolescence; I arrived at some seeming maturity when I was past thirty. It was only in my forties that I really began to feel young. By then I was ready for it. – Henry Valentine Miller (1891–1980), “On Turning Eighty”

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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. – Charles Caleb Colton

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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. – Noam Chomsky

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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. – Sri Aurobindo

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People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. Theres an immediacy of this day and age that doesnt lend itself to being committed to anything. – Emily Blunt

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