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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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Personal Development
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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Personal Development
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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Personal Development
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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Personal Development
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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Personal Development
"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
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Personal Development
"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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Personal Development
"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."
Talent
"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
Past
"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."
People
"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought."
Politics
"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."
Action
"People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it."
Love
"A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect."
Media
"All progress is experimental."
Progress
"Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation."
Thought
"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."
Government
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