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"We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack."
"No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married."
"Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave."
"How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives."
"Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it."
"But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust."
"And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more."
"The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies."
"There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time."
"I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!"
"In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor."
"Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined."
"How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!"
"It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on."
"I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all."
"Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it."
"Age merely shows what children we remain."
"Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]"
"Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other."
"Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout."
