"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."

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"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."

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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

Dorothy Thompson, American Journalist

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"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Author

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"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."

Gordon Sinclair, Canadian Journalist

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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

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"You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress."

Eva Herzigova, Czechoslovakian Model

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

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"I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished."

Sid Meier, American Scientist

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"It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time."

Neil Cavuto, American Journalist

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"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

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"Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not."

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"It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have."

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"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."

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"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."

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"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."

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"When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business."

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"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."

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"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."

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