"The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live."
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"What you call types of mind are only mental ages."
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"Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool."
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"At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three."
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"When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing."
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"How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . ."
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"An Idle youth, a needy Age."
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"Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls."
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"... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself."
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"To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs."
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"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age"
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"Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
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"Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason."
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"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."
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"At a certain age, you have to live near good medical care — if, that is, you're going to continue. You always have the option of not continuing, which, I fear, is sometimes nobler."
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"I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity."
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"Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age."
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"The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed."
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"What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power"
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"I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine."
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