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Dorothy Thompson

"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

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

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"Not even old age knows how to love death."

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"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"
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"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."
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"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
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"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
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"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"
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"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."
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"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings."
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"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"
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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
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"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."
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