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" The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. "

George Santayana

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" Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. "

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" This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. "

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" I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. "

" The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. "

" Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. "

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" I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side. "

" My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed. "

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" Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces. "

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" Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel. "

" Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age. "

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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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" Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job. "

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