"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Age, Time, Teaching

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Age, Aging, Paradox, Time, Youth

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Old, Prudence, Youth

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Age, Hesitation, Risk

"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

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"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."

George Orwell, British Author

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty."

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"Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum."

Public

"One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest."

Action

"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."

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"Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety."

Thought

"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."

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"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

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"St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return."

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"The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's."

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"As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself."

God