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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Satisfaction
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Mistakes
Julius Robert Oppenheimer

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Nothing is swifter than our years.
Time and Time Management
Ovid

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Age and Aging
Nikita Ivanovich Panin

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It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
Progress
H. Ross Perot

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
Life and Living
Persian Proverb

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Wisdom
Titus Maccius Plautus

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A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor.
Honor
Proverb

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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
Prayer
Proverb

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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
Painters and Painting
Pierre Auguste Renoir

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I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
Opposition
Eleanor Roosevelt

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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Models and Modeling
Yves Saint-Laurent

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Age and Aging
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Explanations
Arthur Schopenhauer

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Adversity
Merle Shain

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Joy
Logan Pearsall Smith

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.
Love
Wolfman Jack Smith

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A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
Slavery
Lysander Spooner

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Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
Confidence
Roger Staubach

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!
Life and Living
Adlai E. Stevenson

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A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.
Thoughts and Thinking
Isaac Taylor

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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Perseverance
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Silence
Henry David Thoreau

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Age and Aging
Samuel Ullman

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Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.
Debt
Source Unknown

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun