Quotes 701 till 720 of 825.
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We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.
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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.
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We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
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We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
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We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
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Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
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Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
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We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 167
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