"My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17."
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"I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?"
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"An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction."
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"If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource."
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"We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper."
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"How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.""
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"Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction."
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"Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils."
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"My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age."
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"[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age."
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"In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions."
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"The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed."
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"Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in."
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"In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing."
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"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."
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"In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four."
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"Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages."
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"They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady"
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"God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life."
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"In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career."
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