"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."

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"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Age, Time, Teaching

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Age, Old

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Old, Prudence, Youth

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Age, Hesitation, Risk

"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

Voltaire, French Writer

Age, Misery, Spirit

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Age, Power, Admiration, Ideology

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Age, Being, Certainty, Hesitation

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Age, Woman

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Age, Individuality, Question

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Age, Men, Middleage, Nurses

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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

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"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

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"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."

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"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

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"Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives."

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"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

"Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives."

"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."

"Study the past if you would define the future."

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

"A gentleman is not a pot."