"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."

Age, Extreme, Nothing

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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."

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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."

Walker Percy, American Writer

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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

Glenn Frey, American Musician

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"Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it."

Terry Jones, British Comedian

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"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."

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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."

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"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."

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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."

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"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."

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"There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war."

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"Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity."

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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."

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