Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.
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And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways', Yossarian continued 'There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, 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, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
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Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use
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Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.
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Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
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Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.
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And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.
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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people
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People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we beco...
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Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I f...
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.
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Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.
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[On being asked 'what sort of future she anticipates having':] A very short one.
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Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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