"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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"I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun."

George W. Bush, American President

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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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"We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making."

Yo-Yo Ma, American Musician

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"We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation."

Paul Ryan, American Politician

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"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

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"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think."

Michael Caine, English Actor

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"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion."

Tony Wilson, British Journalist

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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Too much agreement kills the chat."

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"Good government is the outcome of private virtue."

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

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

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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."

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

Thought