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Kaneria has competed in more than 50 Test series [sic] for Pakistan during his career. ↗

— BBC

#cricket #danish-kaneria #misspeaking #pakistan-national-cricket-team #age

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#age

Someday, it will be hard to remember why we were once so fired up about 3G connectivity and the wonders of mobile broadband. Seamless, lightning-fast connectedness will be a given everywhere on Earth, and today's gadgets will be quaint museum pieces. At that point, all we'll care about is what kind of life these devices have created for us. And if it isn't a good life, we'll wonder what we did wrong. ↗

— William Powers

#philosophy #technology #age

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. ↗

— Daniel Woodrell

#coming-of-age #western #age

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospects of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul Richter

#eternity #age

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

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

But instead of this world unification ushering in an age of prosperity and peace, as most globalists believe it will, it will be a time of unimaginable human suffering as recorded in God's Word. The Anti-christ will tightly regulate who may buy and sell. ↗

— Russell Kirk

#conservatism #globalism #age

REFUSAL When you refuse to tell your weight and age, people know you're fat and old. ↗

— Chocolate Waters

#humor #weight #age

A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss--a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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