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" The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. "

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" Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. "

Emily Dickinson

" I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast. "

Michael Weatherly

" One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens. "

" Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting. "

Chelsea Clinton

" Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. "

" A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. "

" It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. "

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. "

Lucille Roybal-Allard

" I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan. "

" As men get older, the toys get more expensive. "

" Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. "

" I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. "

" I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think. "

Minoru Yamasaki

" High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. "

" I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. "

" I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.' "

" 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. "

" At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. "

" Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "

" Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. "

" I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together. "

" In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. "

" A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. "

" We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "

" The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence. "

" The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. "

" Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. "