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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
Age

"Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea."

Age Sea Aging
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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Age

"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."

Ideas Age Birthday
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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
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"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination."

Age Criticism Examination
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old."

Years Age Power
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Franz Kafka Writer
Age

"We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime."

Age Able Justice
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

Age Talking Birthday
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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
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"But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day."

Age Quality Humanity
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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen."

Age Hard Work Sky
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Benjamin Harrison Politician
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"I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process."

Men Doe Age
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation."

Age Freedom Trials
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Age

"How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets."

People Age Time
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