"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."

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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."

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

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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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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"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."

William James, American Philosopher

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

Land

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

God

"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

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"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."

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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

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"The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man."

Fear

"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."

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"Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion."

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"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."

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"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."

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