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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
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"I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."
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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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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age


"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
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"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People


"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
Fun


"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
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"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
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"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
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"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
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