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"The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life."
"Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour."
"We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age."
"It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket."
"All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure."
"Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages."
"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."
"I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials."
"Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical."
"Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age."
"The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age."
"Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!"
"I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35."
"We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent."
"Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age."
"You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet."
"Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go."
"And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government."
"The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy."
"And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered."
