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• I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Funny, Happiness

  Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1979). “The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education”

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• I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

  Ruby Wax

  Truth, People, Television

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• Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Retirement

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• A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

  Dorothea Kent

  Funny, Eye, Men

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• Old people, don't watch it because you might die just watching it.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Hockey, Nhl, People

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• We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Funny, Birthday, Growing Up

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• How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?

  Joseph Heller

  Running, Evil, People

  Catch-22 ch. 18 (1961)

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• I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest.

  Michael Angelakos

  Long, People, Upset

  "Passion Pit". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. July 19, 2012.

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• If time heals all wounds, then why are there so many ticked off old people walking around.

  Garrison Wynn

  People, Time Heals, Walking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, People, Healthy

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• There's a growing trend of older Americans who are using marijuana in their retirement. That makes sense because old people are always talking about their joints.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Retirement, Marijuana, Talking

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• My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people's rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Nostalgia is heroin for old people.

  Dara O Briain

  Funny, People, Nostalgia

  Interview with Malcolm Hay, www.timeout.com. April 24, 2006.

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• It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

  Marie Dressler

  Birthday, Wisdom, Age

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• Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

  Aristotle

  Friends, People, Littles

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.608, Simon and Schuster

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• Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Happy Birthday, Getting Older, Age

  "Why brands side-line the over-50s at their peril" by Crispin Reed, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2013.

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• Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

  Gerald Brenan

  Giving, Age, Aging

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• I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

  Zhou Xun

  Lonely, Children, Home

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• I don't aim it at anybody specific, I don't aim my characters to make old people laugh or young people or professionals or blue collar, just whatever I think is going to be funny and it just so happens that.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Thinking, Blue

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!

  Bob Proctor

  People, Young, Ifs

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it.

  Anthony Evans

  Smell, Long, People

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The good news is that the American people, not just the African-American community are saying enough is enough. You can`t hold people in custody and suddenly find out that they are dead. You can`t shoot people in the back.

  Bernie Sanders

  People, Community, African American

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.

  Barbara Walters

  Party, People, House

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

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