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It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. – Tom Lehrer

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When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. – Tom Lehrer

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My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But thats just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. – Tom Lehrer

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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. – Tom Lehrer

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It is not well to make great changes in old age. – Charles Spurgeon

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What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, its that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost cant wait too long. Its the single simplest measure to predict divorce. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier

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It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was. – Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696

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Its art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isnt about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – contain multitudes. – Jerry Saltz

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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. – Jessica Lange

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A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot. – Author Unknown

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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. – Charles Babbage

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