"The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage."
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"If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives."
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"I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's particularly badly timed. If they're doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives."
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"Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'."
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"A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity"
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"All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul."
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"In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science."
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"Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins"
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"It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age."
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"With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal."
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"It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America."
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"For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago."
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"In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward."
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"Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets."
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"Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences."
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"The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."
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"The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil."
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"The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions."
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"We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture."
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"The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself."
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