"Dissents speak to a future age."

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"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

Age, Old

"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

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

Voltaire, French Writer

Age, Misery, Spirit

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Age, Power, Admiration, Ideology

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Age, Being, Certainty, Hesitation

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

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Age, Woman

"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Age, Individuality, Question

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Age, Men, Middleage, Nurses

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"We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did."

Work, Court

"Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."

Equality, Men, Women, Responsibility

"Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise."

Change, Women, Policy, Abortion

"I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling."

Equality, Decision, Choice, Man

"The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality."

Equality, State, Woman

"When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight."

Police, State

"She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me."

Legal, Career, Support

"All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself."

Power, Freedom, Obvious, Office

"So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow."

Today, Tomorrow, Writing

"My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S."

Mother, Lady, Girls, Growing up