"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."

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"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."

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

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

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"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

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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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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."

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"The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners."

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"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind."

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"Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it."

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"American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them."

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