"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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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

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"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."

Amitabh Bachchan, Indian Actor

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

Will Durant, American Historian

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

Time

"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."

Education

"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."

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

Education

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

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"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."

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"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."

Life

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

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"Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole."

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"Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine."

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