"If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness."

Age, Work, Busyness, Conflict

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"If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness."

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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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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

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"Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness."

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