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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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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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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
Mind
"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
Soul
"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
Effort
"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
Intelligence
"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
Change
"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
Achievement
"Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end."
Emotional
"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."
Art
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
Peace
"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
Blood
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