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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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Personal Development
"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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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."
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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."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
Age
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
Character
"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
Creativity
"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."
Confidence
"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
Army
"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."
Courage
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
Career
"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
Life
"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."
Dream
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
Man
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