Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

~ Núria Añó

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Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

~ Núria Añó

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The good thing about being old is not being young.

~ Stephen Richards

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When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

~ Stephen Richards

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