"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, Discovery, Freedom, Liberty

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"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."

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Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

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Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

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"The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values."

Christopher Dawson, English Writer

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"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."

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"Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it."

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"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."

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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active."

Susan Hampshire, English Actress

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

Government, Excess

"Grow strong, my comrade that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will comeAt last to finer melody in you;That I may tell my heart that you beginWhere passing I leave off, and fathom more."

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"Virtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history."

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

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"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

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"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."

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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."

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"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."

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"Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say."

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"We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived."

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