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Gunter Grass Novelist
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"Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age."

Writing Age Drawing
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Guy Wilson Actor
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"I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies."

Years Age Community
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Age

"If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option."

People Children Age
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski observed, it would provide the US with "critical leverage" of its European and Asian rivals, a conception with roots in early post-war planning. These are substantial reasons for aggression - not unlike those of the British when they invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years earlier, at the dawn of the oil age."

Age Reason Planning
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The Zionist movement based in Palestine pretty much took over the camps and instituted the policy that every man and woman between the ages of seventeen and thirty-five should be directed to Palestine - not allowed to go to the West."

Men Age West
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Age

"One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices."

Age One Day Racing
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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older."

Thinking Age Growing
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour."

Men Age Half
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Age

"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost."

Age Lost Youth
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Age

"A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey."

Age Poetry Honey
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Age

"It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them."

Age Dark History
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