Quotes with age-appropriate

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  • Winston Churchill The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Brigham Young The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.
    First Vision Journal of Discourses 8:354. (March 3, 1861)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Carl Schmitt The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.
    Political Theology (1922)
    Carl Schmitt
    German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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  • William Wordsworth The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Alva Myrdal The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Ben Bernanke The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Allan Bloom The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Katharine Hepburn The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Bill Goldberg The new age of terrorism isn't on the battlefield: it's in your own backyard. Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Confucius The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Thomas Robert Malthus The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.
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  • George Santayana The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Enid Bagnold The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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