"Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years."
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"The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself."
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"I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit."
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"A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is."
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"Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth's largesse. When Africa, which gave us the wealth of life, has that debt returned, the world will have come of age."
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"No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man."
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"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
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"I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me."
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"If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations."
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"But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age."
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"You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age."
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"In a dream you are never eighty."
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"Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge."
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"Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be."
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"One’s objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won’t improve with age."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender."
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"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom."
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