"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed."

Lawrence Clark Powell, American Librarian

Age, Work, Books, Children

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"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed."

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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

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"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."

Amitabh Bachchan, Indian Actor

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

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"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end."

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"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things."

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"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."

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"What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation."

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