"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
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"I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this."
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"In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service."
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"I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours."
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"By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty."
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"In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air."
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"When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place."
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"Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom."
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"Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom."
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"An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes."
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"When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself."
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"Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love."
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"In bringing up a child, think of its old age."
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"There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them."
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"The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier."
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"Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants."
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"Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages"
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"It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image."
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"It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs."
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"I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in."
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