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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. – Joseph Addison

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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. – Joseph Addison

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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. – Joseph Addison

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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. – Mason Cooley

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Swing voters are more appropriately known as the idiot voters because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, youre either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster. – Ann Coulter

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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. Its the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. – Ang Lee

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Youth is when youre allowed to stay up late on New Years Eve. Middle age is when youre forced to. – Bill Vaughan

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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. – Edward Norton

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