"This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities."
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"There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions."
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"In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird."
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"As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age."
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"Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later."
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"I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age."
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"Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages."
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"The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear."
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"This then is the age of reason."
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"The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active."
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"In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age."
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"National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age."
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"It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible."
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"Everyone desires long life, not one old age."
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"What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them."
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"It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope."
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"You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age."
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"But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away."
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"Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty."
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"No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today."
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