"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."

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"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

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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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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."

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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."

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"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."

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"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."

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"Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent."

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"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."

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"Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil."

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