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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
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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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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
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"The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age."
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"If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began."
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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
Being
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
Soul
"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."
Death
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
Change
"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
Self
"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
Compassion
"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
People
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
Evil
"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
Soul
"Animals often strike us as passionate machines."
Animals
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