"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."

Age, Music, Poetry, Excellence

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"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Class, End, Interest

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

Age, Character, Man

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Age, Business, Dad, Cows

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

Age, Guitar, Play, Poems

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Age, Information, Philosophy, Talk

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

Tom Hanks, American Actor

Age, People, Babies, Being

"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

Steven Morrissey, English Musician

Age, Now, Sense

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Age, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Age, Women, Fear, Living

"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Aging, Speech, Wisdom, Time

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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."

Philosophy, Order, Will

"The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action."

Genius, Action, Freedom, Interest

"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."

Change, Force

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."

Faith, Being, Hurt, Living

"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."

People, Control, Order

"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."

Happiness, Passion

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

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

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."

"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."

"The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers."

"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."

"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings."

"The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action."

"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint."

"Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."

"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."

"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."