"Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age."

Age, History, Civilization, Nation

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"Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age."

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"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

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

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age."

Malcolm Boyd, American Clergyman

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"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."

William Cobbett, English Politician

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"We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress."

Li Ka Shing, Chinese Businessman

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