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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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Personal Development
"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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Personal Development
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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Personal Development
"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."
Fact
"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well."
Time
"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought."
Art
"Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety."
People
"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."
Society
"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."
People
"It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business."
Business
"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about."
Humor
"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination."
Age
"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."
Life
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