{"quotes":[{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The good thing about being old is not being young.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["age","ageism","old","old-age","old-aged","old-people","retired","retiring","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-self-help"],"id":14514,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... 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The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.","author":"Núria Añó","tags":["age","ageing","aging","aging-gracefully","brexit","continent","economy","europe","european-economic-area","european-union","europeans","getting-older","growing-old","humor","inevitability","irony-of-life","job","jobs","life","living","mathematics","middle-age","nuria-ano","old-age","old-aged","old-people","retired","retiring","staggering","staggering-society","work","worker","workers","working-class","works"],"id":165645,"author_id":"N%C3%BAria+A%C3%B1%C3%B3"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","bore","bored","boredom","childfree","childless","companion","companionship","deep","dictum","dictums","elder","elderly","entertainment","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","loneliness","lonely","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","old","old-age","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish-selfishness","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful","torture","torturing","young","youngster","youngsters"],"id":222857,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}