I
live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of
maturity.
-- Albert
Einstein | 
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Of
all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means
decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
-- Marilyn Ferguson, The
Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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| Those
who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
-- Benjamin Franklin |
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Aging
is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
-- Betty
Friedan | 
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"Resolve
to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the
striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you
will have been all of these."
-- Dr. Robert H. Goddard (American rocket engineer
1882-1945)
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It was once said that the
moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn
of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and
those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert Humphrey
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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 | 
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Senior
Citizens Day - August 21
Intl.
Day of Older Persons
- October 1
