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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."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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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."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage."
Life

"Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one."
Answers

"Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy."
Controversy

"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
May

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
Constitution

"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep."
Gratitude

"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."
Force

"I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough."
Man

"It simply is not true that war never settles anything."
War

"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."
Policy
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