And yet the AKP may not be entirely immune to what pundits refer to as "the 10-year rule", or the sort of atrophy which affects governments as they grow old.

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They will grow old, but their hits never will -- once people first fall in love with those songs, the songs will mean something powerful and evocative to them for the rest of their lives.

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God willing, they will grow old.

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So they stay poor, and grow old before they get rich.

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The famous poem by Lawrence Binyon, For The Fallen (They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old), which is heard every Remembrance Day, was set to music by Elgar in his The Spirit Of England.

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They did not grow old.

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But unless something is done to defeat the disease, years from now people who are today young and strong will be fighting it, and -- when the disease strikes their favorite actors, athletes and singers who are in 2012 so full of youth and energy, and who will inevitably grow old -- they, too, will be reminded of the passing years, and of life's memories lost and found.

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And old markets can be refined as they grow.

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This is because countries tend not to actually pay off their debts: they hope that the economy will grow faster than the debt and so will become less important but they very rarely actually pay off the old debts.

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"We grow about 30 different varieties, some so old in fact that we don't know what variety they are, " she says, sitting at the kitchen table which doubles as the office.

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