"Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age."

Age, Growth, Ignorance, Waste

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"Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

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

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

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"A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife."

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"The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else."

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"The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement."

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"The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become."

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"Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations."

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"It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!"

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