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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."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
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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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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework."
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"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."
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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
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"Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time."
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"Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs."
Family
"Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew."
Poetry
"There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library."
Poetry
"It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden."
Family
"Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries."
Age
"A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice."
Exploration
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