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Walter Pater

"The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."

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Amber Hurdle

"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

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Amber Hurdle

"I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"If youth knew; if age could."

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Amber Hurdle

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age."

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Walter Pater
"Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it."

Art

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Walter Pater
"At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action."

Experience

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Walter Pater
"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."

Art

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Walter Pater
"The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads."

Age

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Walter Pater
"Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us."

Life

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Walter Pater
"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."

Beauty

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Walter Pater
"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."

Life

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Walter Pater
"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact."

Life

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Walter Pater
"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."

Art

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Walter Pater
"Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."

Art

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