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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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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."
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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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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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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.'"
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
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"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."
Virtue

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
Government

"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."
Law

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
People

"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law."
Law

"Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn."
Man

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."
Age

"I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
Income

"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
Environment

"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."
Knowledge
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