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The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin said somewhere that it is a crime for any " revolutionary " to be much past the age of 55 , Lenin's approximate age when he died. Very non-revolutionary American politicians might also be wise not to seek the US presidency much past the age of 55. LIFE has always been cruel on the aged . We have famous intellectuals like British philosopher Bertrand Russell ,still brilliant past the age of 90, when he was protesting the criminal war in Vietnam. But as a rule it is only HUMAN, I guess , to begin to lose your mind just past 80 . RETREAT from public life should begin at the average age for collecting social security . Whatever the state of their minds , OLD people were once very much respected in Old China .