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«Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.»
«At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.»
«[Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour] and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.»
«Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.»
Author: Henry Ford | About: Age, Learning | Keywords: eighties, eighty, keeps, stays, stops, twenty
«And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: eighty, Lamech, Methuselah, Seven Years
«And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: / And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: eighty, Lamech
«Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.»
Author: Henry Ford | Keywords: eighties, eighty, stops, twenty
«Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty»
«A man as he manages himself, may die old at thirty, or young at eighty»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: eighty, manages, thirty
«At the age of ten, he is a child; at twenty, a youth, and at thirty, he is called handsome. At forty, he is full of life; at fifty, his foot slips, and at sixty, old age is upon him. At seventy, he loses his intellect, and at eighty, he cannot perform his duties. At ninety, he lies in his bed, and he cannot understand his weakness. After seeking and searching for such a long time, O Nanak, I have seen that the world is just a mansion of smoke.»

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