"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."
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"It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now."
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"We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking."
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"Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen."
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"It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there."
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"Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty."
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"Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die."
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"The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason."
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"What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease."
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"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful."
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"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age."
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"Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men."
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"When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense."
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"I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time."
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"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! for everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. one morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived."
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"After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else."
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"As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment."
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"A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age."
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"We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age."
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