"Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years."
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"I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly."
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"Age carries with it a double load of guilt."
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"Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest."
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"The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it."
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"I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties."
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"I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen"
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"Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?"
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"There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story."
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"If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem."
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"Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that there was more than one person inside him. Indeed he would veer from friendly, open and so on to someone who was angry. In a way, there was a swing also between his American self and what he later called his Franco-American older brother. There was a swing between the deeply introverted part of himself and the person he became out in the world, having to act in an extroverted way."
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"To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages."
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"Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age."
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"In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other."
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"Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind."
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"I was performing from the age of three."
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"As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him."
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"Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese."
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"My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age."
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"In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud."
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