"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

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"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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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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"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."

William James, American Philosopher

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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Explore more quotes by Tom Stoppard

"Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final."

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"You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires."

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"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."

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"The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices-after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's."

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"I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover."

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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."

History

"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?"

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"A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty-and, by which definition, a philosopher-dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security."

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"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

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"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

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