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" Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. "
John Boyd Orr
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" With age comes common sense and wisdom. "
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" By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them. "
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" I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. "
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" When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. "
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" We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself. "
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" Age is how we determine how valuable you are. "
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" One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age. "
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" I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty. "
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" I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine. "
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" India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. "
Sri Aurobindo
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" Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. "
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" We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. "
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" There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. "
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" Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them. "
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" Old age is no place for sissies. "
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" I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. "
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" At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. "
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" If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. "
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" For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit. "
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" Minds ripen at very different ages. "
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" Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point. "
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" Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age. "
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" My system is to be considered a system leading up, in a general way, to education. It can be followed not only in the education of little children from three to six years of age, but can be extended to children up to ten years of age. "
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" For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30. "
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" It feels like there's something for everyone in video games. It's not just a toy for a certain age group. It's steeped in the culture now. "
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" American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age. "
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" The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion. "
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" Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. "
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