"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination."

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"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination."

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

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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."

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

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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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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"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."

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"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."

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"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."

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"The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy."

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"Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow."

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"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."

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"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought."

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"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."

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