"You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?"

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"You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?"

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

George Orwell, British Author

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"There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory."

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"I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me."

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"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."

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"The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever."

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"The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us."

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"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."

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"I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."

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"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught me by example in one week."

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"You want calamities? What about the Ice Age?"

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"If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly."

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