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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

    Aging and Being Bold

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    “If you still have passion and if you haven’t become cynical and you’ve remained open to life, then no matter how old you are chronologically, you’re still young.”

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    — Jane Fonda, Academy award-winning American actress, political activist, and environmentalist

    “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”

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    — Bonnie Prudden, American physical fitness pioneer, expert rock climber, and mountaineer

    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

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    — Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Prize-Winning African American Baptist Minister, and Civil Rights Advocate and Icon

    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

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    — George Eliot, Pen Name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist, poet, and journalist of the Victorian era

    “If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.”

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    — Mel Brooks, Legendary American Comedian, Writer and Director

    “So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.”

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    — Freeman Dyson, English-American Physicist, Mathematician and Iconoclast Who Gained Public Renown For His Writing on Technology and War