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"The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

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

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

"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."

"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
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"You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real."
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"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."

"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow."

"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."

"If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept."

"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."

"Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself."

"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."

"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."

"Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses."
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