"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."

Age, Nature, People, Energy

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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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"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."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"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."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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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.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."

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"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."

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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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"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"

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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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"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."

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"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."

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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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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."

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