"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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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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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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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.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

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"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."

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"No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite."

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"It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans."

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"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

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"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."

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"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."

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"In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully."

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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."

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"Appearance rules the world."

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