"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age."

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"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"From a relatively early age I got interested in business."

Steve Case, American Businessman

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

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"It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep."

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"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."

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"A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect."

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"Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation."

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"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought."

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"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind."

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"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."

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"Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth."

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"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."

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