"...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge."
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"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."
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"There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin.""
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"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost."
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"At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable."
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"Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left."
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"The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art."
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"To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own."
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"Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages."
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"The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman."
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"His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47."
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"I want to show that you don’t have to be older to live your dreams; you can do it at any age"
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"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
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"I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age."
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"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born."
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"In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent."
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"At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike."
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"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected."
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"Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre."
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"I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact."
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