"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."

Age, Civilization

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"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."

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W. H. Auden, English Poet

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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."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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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."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence."

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"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal."

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"Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred."

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"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."

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"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice."

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

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"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art."

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"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."

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