Quotes with age-appropriate

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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
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  • Marshall Mcluhan If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Günter Grass If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Cate Blanchett If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Warren Buffett If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Henri Estienne If youth but knew; if age but could.
    Henri Estienne
    French printer and classicist (1528 - 1598)
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  • Henri Estienne If youth knew; if age could.
    Henri Estienne
    French printer and classicist (1528 - 1598)
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  • Bobby Rahal In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Angela Carter In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Oscar Wilde In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Billy Joel In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Serge Daney In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
    Serge Daney
    French movie critic
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  • R. H. Hutton In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
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  • Socrates In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Brooks Atkinson In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
    Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Alfred Marshall In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
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  • Bill Dedman In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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