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"Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development."
Work
"The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life."
Life
"Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases."
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"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children."
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"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
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"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."
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"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
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"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
Growth
"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."
Love
"The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity."
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