"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world."

Age, Credit, Gain, Order

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"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

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"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

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"I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll."

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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?"

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"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

Steven Morrissey, English Musician

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"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."

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"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."

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"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."

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"If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?"

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"Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe."

Nostalgia

"Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison."

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"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us."

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"The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation."

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"Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people."

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"In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of."

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