"A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age."

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"A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Class, End, Interest

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

Age, Character, Man

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Age, Business, Dad, Cows

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

Age, Guitar, Play, Poems

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Age, Information, Philosophy, Talk

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

Tom Hanks, American Actor

Age, People, Babies, Being

"I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll."

Ben Harper, American Musician

Age,

"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Age, Opportunity, Day, Dress

"Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?"

Joan D. Vinge, American Author

Age, Cruelty, Illness, Old

"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

Steven Morrissey, English Musician

Age, Now, Sense

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"In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom," like a bastard brother of reform."

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"If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble."

Peace

"I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum."

Home

"Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."

Revolution

"As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet."

Revolution

"Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse."

Man

"Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men."

Man

"The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact."

Life

"A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age."

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