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Soren Kierkegaard

"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."

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"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."

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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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"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
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