"At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force."
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"Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk."
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"I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this."
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"We are the heirs of the ages"
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"From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages."
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"Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail."
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"The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest."
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"I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage."
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"From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers."
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"If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes."
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"The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them."
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"The age of miracles is forever here."
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"Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself."
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"We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from."
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"I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society."
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"We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it's impossible. It's out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes."
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"Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too."
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"Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system."
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"The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next."
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"I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory."
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